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FAILING PEACE EFFORTS PROMPT AZERBAIJAN TO FREE ITS OCCUPIED LAND - DEFENSE CHIEF
AzerNews. Azerbaijan
July 12 2013
12 July 2013, 16:47 (GMT+05:00)
By Gulgiz Dadashova
The failure of peace efforts aimed at resolution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict leaves no other choice for Azerbaijan but
to liberate its Armenian-occupied territories by bolstering the armed
forces, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev has said.
"Azerbaijan has no other way but to liberate the occupied territory
by strengthening its army," Abiyev said at a meeting with a Korean
parliamentary delegation in Baku on July 12.
Abiyev reminded that the Azerbaijani territories occupied by the
invader Armenia have not been returned so far.
"Despite efforts to peacefully resolve the conflict, Armenia is
holding on to its invasion policy," he said, adding that the UN
Security Council resolutions and OSCE Minsk Group's efforts in this
regard have been fruitless.
Armenia's territorial claims in the late 1980s and the ensuing military
aggression resulted in the occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijani
territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and also seven surrounding
regions. Over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and IDPs in
the aftermath of the brutal 1990s war fought between the two South
Caucasus republics.
In Nagorno-Karabakh, adjacent regions and the regions bordering on
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh about 700,000 people were deprived of
their places of residence and turned into IDPs. They are temporarily
settled in 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan in more than 1,600
densely populated areas.
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/56764.html
AzerNews. Azerbaijan
July 12 2013
12 July 2013, 16:47 (GMT+05:00)
By Gulgiz Dadashova
The failure of peace efforts aimed at resolution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict leaves no other choice for Azerbaijan but
to liberate its Armenian-occupied territories by bolstering the armed
forces, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev has said.
"Azerbaijan has no other way but to liberate the occupied territory
by strengthening its army," Abiyev said at a meeting with a Korean
parliamentary delegation in Baku on July 12.
Abiyev reminded that the Azerbaijani territories occupied by the
invader Armenia have not been returned so far.
"Despite efforts to peacefully resolve the conflict, Armenia is
holding on to its invasion policy," he said, adding that the UN
Security Council resolutions and OSCE Minsk Group's efforts in this
regard have been fruitless.
Armenia's territorial claims in the late 1980s and the ensuing military
aggression resulted in the occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijani
territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and also seven surrounding
regions. Over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and IDPs in
the aftermath of the brutal 1990s war fought between the two South
Caucasus republics.
In Nagorno-Karabakh, adjacent regions and the regions bordering on
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh about 700,000 people were deprived of
their places of residence and turned into IDPs. They are temporarily
settled in 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan in more than 1,600
densely populated areas.
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/56764.html