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    AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR: WE RECOGNIZE AZERBAIJAN'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND ARE AWARE OF THE REAL SITUATION

    APA
    Nov 28 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Sydney. Elmin Ibrahimov-APA. Australian Ambassador to Turkey Ian
    Biggs, who is also accredited to Azerbaijan and Georgia, has met with
    the members of Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in Sydney.

    APA reports that the parties discussed a range of issues of mutual
    concern, including the recent efforts for the development of economic
    and political relations between Azerbaijan and Australia, and the
    opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra from early next year.

    Imametdin Kassoumov, President of Azerbaijani-Australian-Turkic Unity,
    brought to the attention of Mr. Ambassador the 25 October 2012 motion
    moved by the Hon. Marie Ficarra on "Declaration of Independence of the
    Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Twentieth Anniversary".

    The aforementioned motion has been abusively mispresented in some mass
    media outlets, especially by Armenian press as the recognition by the
    New South Wales of the independence of internationally unrecognized
    Nagorno Karabakh, an area of a protracted, armed, fragile regional
    conflict between two former Soviet Union (USSR) countries of
    Azerbaijan and Armenia, which claimed over 30 000 lives and still
    killing hundreds of people each year.

    It has been noted that the smear lobby campaign, exercised by ANCA
    here in Australia, is designed to mislay the international community,
    delay peaceful negotiations process, and damage deep-rooted close
    relations of Azerbaijani-Turkish community of Australia in the NSW.

    Mr. Biggs hailed the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra as a
    sign of development of relations between the two countries.

    As to the motion in the NSW Legislative Council, the ambassador said
    he has visited Azerbaijan before and is aware of the Nagorno Karabakh
    conflict, and the situation on refugees and IDPs in the country.

    He added that his country recognizes Azerbaijan's territorial
    integrity within its internationally recognized borders and supports
    peaceful negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
    conflict within international law.

    At the end of the meeting Mr. Biggs was presented with a book,
    "Unreconciled Differences: Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan" by
    well-known Canadian journalist Scott Taylor.

    Note that the conflict in Azerbaijan's multi-cultural southwest region
    of Nagorno Karabakh erupted towards the end of Soviet rule in 1988
    when Armenian military secessionists, using the chaos amid the loss of
    government control, started to drive out non-Armenian ethnic groups to
    proclaim an 'independent country'.

    The conflict still remains one of the most dangerous, fragile unfrozen
    conflicts in the post-Soviet Europe.

    The UN Security Council has to date issued 4 resolutions (#822, #853,
    #874, #884) on unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from the
    occupied lands of Azerbaijan, in addition to the repeated resolutions
    by the UN General Assembly and other international organizations

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