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    PARIS'S STATEMENT ON STARTING WORK ON GREAT PEACE DEAL IS PROGRESS

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Nov 4 2014

    4 November 2014, 11:35 (GMT+04:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Azerbaijani foreign policy head said though no tangible results
    were achieved during the recent meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
    presidents in Paris, French President Francois Hollande's statement
    saying it is time to start working over a great peace agreement is
    a progress.

    Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov made the remark at a briefing on
    November 3 speaking about the meeting between Azerbaijani President
    Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

    The two presidents held a meeting on October 27 with the participation
    of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to discuss the settlement process
    of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They held a face to face meeting,
    which was followed by another joint meeting with the OSCE Minsk
    Group co-chairs. Afterwards, a joint meeting attended by President
    Hollande, President Aliyev, President Sargsyan and the OSCE Minsk
    Group co-chairmen took place.

    Mammadyarov also stressed that it is necessary to continue working
    over the issues that have not yet been agreed yet.

    He said that the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting will take place in
    Basel (Switzerland) in early December. A meeting of foreign ministers
    of the two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is also expected
    to be held with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen.

    Mammadyarov underlined that an important condition for the talks is
    the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied territories. He
    said the mediators have agreed on this issue.

    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 U.S., 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.

    The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
    enforced to this day.

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