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    UK CALLS FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Dec 5 2013

    5 December 2013, 13:12 (GMT+04:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    A member of the UK-Azerbaijani inter-parliamentary group said the
    United Kingdom continues to call for a peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    "The UK government rightly continues to urge both sides and all
    players to use diplomatic means to achieve a peaceful settlement
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and calls on them to refrain from
    behavior and rhetoric that could lead to an increase in tension,"
    Christopher Pincher said in an interview published in The Independent
    and German Die Welt.

    Pincher said the UK strongly supports the OSCE Minsk Group efforts
    to mediate in talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan for finding a
    peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    He said the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently made some
    positive comments on the progress in the conflict, although these
    observations are difficult to interpret.

    Pincher urged the two sides to be more open in the Minsk process,
    which is known for its secrecy.

    Pincher said he understands that diplomacy requires great
    punctiliousness, but he believes that perhaps a little more
    transparency could be helpful for the negation process.

    He said thousands of Azerbaijanis, a whole generation, forced to
    live in camps designated to internally displaced people throughout
    Azerbaijan, as they cannot return to their homes because of the
    conflict with Armenia.

    Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
    recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
    regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus
    neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing
    efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless
    so far.

    As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
    Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
    100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

    Four UN Security Council resolutions, and similar statements from the
    EU, NATO and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which have called
    for the withdrawal of Armenian forces have so far gone unanswered.

    Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the US have also produced
    no results so far.

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