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AZERBAIJAN AGAINST ARMENIA'S ACCESSION TO CUSTOMS UNION BEFORE KARABAKH PROBLEM SETTLED
Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Dec 27 2013
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Dec. 27, 2013, 6:46 p.m. | Ukraine - by Interfax-Ukraine
Baku - Baku is against Yerevan's accession to the
Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union before Armenia withdraws
its armed forces from the occupied Azeri territories and before
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is restored, Ali Hasanov, the chief
of the public policy department at the Azeri presidential secretariat,
told Azeri media.
"It would be against international law principles if Armenia, a
country that has occupied native Azeri lands, such as Nagorno-Karabakh
and seven adjacent districts, joins any union or association,"
Hasanov said.
"It is commonly known that relevant resolutions and decisions by the
UN, the OSCE and other authoritative international organizations have
confirmed the fact of the occupation of Azerbaijan's territories by
Armenia and demanded unambiguously that the territories occupied by
the aggressor country be freed. Therefore, Armenia's accession to
the Customs Union or any other similar body is possible only after
the liberation of the occupied Azeri lands," he said.
Otherwise, at the moment of Armenia's accession to any union, its
territory and borders will violate international jurisdiction because
of the violation of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, he said.
"Either this state has to officially make a claim on the occupied
territories and the structures it enters have to accept this, or
it should return these lands and become a member of new unions with
territories endorsed within the UN framework," Hasanov said.
https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/azerbaijan-against-armenias-accession-to-customs-union-before-karabakh-problem-settled-334350.html
Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Dec 27 2013
Print version
Dec. 27, 2013, 6:46 p.m. | Ukraine - by Interfax-Ukraine
Baku - Baku is against Yerevan's accession to the
Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union before Armenia withdraws
its armed forces from the occupied Azeri territories and before
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is restored, Ali Hasanov, the chief
of the public policy department at the Azeri presidential secretariat,
told Azeri media.
"It would be against international law principles if Armenia, a
country that has occupied native Azeri lands, such as Nagorno-Karabakh
and seven adjacent districts, joins any union or association,"
Hasanov said.
"It is commonly known that relevant resolutions and decisions by the
UN, the OSCE and other authoritative international organizations have
confirmed the fact of the occupation of Azerbaijan's territories by
Armenia and demanded unambiguously that the territories occupied by
the aggressor country be freed. Therefore, Armenia's accession to
the Customs Union or any other similar body is possible only after
the liberation of the occupied Azeri lands," he said.
Otherwise, at the moment of Armenia's accession to any union, its
territory and borders will violate international jurisdiction because
of the violation of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, he said.
"Either this state has to officially make a claim on the occupied
territories and the structures it enters have to accept this, or
it should return these lands and become a member of new unions with
territories endorsed within the UN framework," Hasanov said.
https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/azerbaijan-against-armenias-accession-to-customs-union-before-karabakh-problem-settled-334350.html