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    Trend, Azerbaijan
    July 5 2012


    Special Envoy: NATO supports mutually acceptable peaceful solution to
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


    Azerbaijan, Baku, July 5 / Trend, E.Mehdiyev/

    NATO supports mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the
    Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Alliance's special
    representative for South Caucasus and Central Asia, James Appathurai
    told reporters in Baku on Thursday.

    "There is Minsk process and we don't participate in that, but we
    support it, it's goal, which is mutually acceptable peaceful
    solution," he said.

    He said there is a concern at the NATO about the unresolved
    Nagorno-Karabakh situation. "Recently there have been high tension and
    a number of incidents, which worry us," he added.

    According to Appathurai, this region has so much potential - economic
    and political potential.

    "There must be a political solution, and there will be no successful
    military solution," he underlined.

    "NATO as an organization does not comment and cannot comment on the
    national policy of its members, when it comes to weapons sale,"
    Appathurai made this statement commenting on the U.S. ban on weapons
    sale to Azerbaijan.
    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 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.

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