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OIC TO FURTHER BACK BAKU'S POSITION ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 18 2013
18 December 2013, 11:53 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has always supported and
will support the position of Azerbaijan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu made the remark during
his press conference held in Ankara before leaving his position as
the secretary general, Anadolu agency reported.
Ihsanoglu further said he always made an effort to resolve the
conflicts in Muslim countries.
He noted that the OIC has achieved significant progress in many areas
for nine years (during Turkey's chairmanship). The chairmanship in
the OIC will pass to Saudi Arabia from January 2014.
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 had caused a lengthy war in the early 1990s.
The OIC always kept the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in focus.
Its member states expressed concern over the occupation of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenian and looting and destruction
of the archeological, cultural and religious monuments in those
areas, including Islamic monuments in the resolution adopted by the
organization during the OIC summit in Dakar, Senegal in 2008.
Recently, the 40th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM)
of the OIC adopted a resolution recognizing the Khojaly massacre,
committed by the Armenian vandals in early, as genocide.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 18 2013
18 December 2013, 11:53 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has always supported and
will support the position of Azerbaijan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu made the remark during
his press conference held in Ankara before leaving his position as
the secretary general, Anadolu agency reported.
Ihsanoglu further said he always made an effort to resolve the
conflicts in Muslim countries.
He noted that the OIC has achieved significant progress in many areas
for nine years (during Turkey's chairmanship). The chairmanship in
the OIC will pass to Saudi Arabia from January 2014.
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 had caused a lengthy war in the early 1990s.
The OIC always kept the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in focus.
Its member states expressed concern over the occupation of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenian and looting and destruction
of the archeological, cultural and religious monuments in those
areas, including Islamic monuments in the resolution adopted by the
organization during the OIC summit in Dakar, Senegal in 2008.
Recently, the 40th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM)
of the OIC adopted a resolution recognizing the Khojaly massacre,
committed by the Armenian vandals in early, as genocide.