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TURKISH MINISTER: ARMENIA OUGHT TO LIBERATE AZERBAIJANI LANDS RATHER THAN REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE AT EUROVISION-2012
Trend
April 23 2012
Azerbaijan
Armenia's refusal from participation at the Eurovision Song Contest,
to be held in Baku, is not an "invention", but instead Armenia ought
to stop occupation of the Azerbaijani lands, Turkish Minister for EU
Affairs Egemen Bagis, Son Dakika agency reported.
"If Armenia wants to go down in history, it must withdraw from the
occupied Azerbaijani territories. This will be the right step by
Yerevan," Bagis said.
He also stressed that Turkey does not intend to watch in silence
Armenia's unfairness and cruelty that the Azerbaijani people endured.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of
Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
Trend
April 23 2012
Azerbaijan
Armenia's refusal from participation at the Eurovision Song Contest,
to be held in Baku, is not an "invention", but instead Armenia ought
to stop occupation of the Azerbaijani lands, Turkish Minister for EU
Affairs Egemen Bagis, Son Dakika agency reported.
"If Armenia wants to go down in history, it must withdraw from the
occupied Azerbaijani territories. This will be the right step by
Yerevan," Bagis said.
He also stressed that Turkey does not intend to watch in silence
Armenia's unfairness and cruelty that the Azerbaijani people endured.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of
Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.