BAKU: Azerbaijani Leader: Territorial Integrity The Basis For Karaba

[Kalashian Nyrie]

AZERBAIJANI LEADER: TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY THE BASIS FOR KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

news.az
Jan 18 2010
Azerbaijan

Ilham Aliyev "The Karabakh issue will be settled within the framework
of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan", President Aliyev has said.

The way to resolve the Karabakh conflict has already been decided
and the principle of territorial integrity has been taken as a basis,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday at a cabinet session
on the country's socioeconomic development in 2009.

"I think this formula may be decisive in the Karabakh conflict
settlement. The issue will be settled within the framework of the
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan," Aliyev said.

"The Armenian occupying forces must be withdrawn from all the occupied
lands and our compatriots must return there," Aliyev said. "Security
measures must be taken and in the future the Azerbaijani and Armenian
communities of Nagorno-Karabakh must live within Azerbaijan in
conditions of high autonomy. This is our position. And the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan recognized by the international community
must be restored."