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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    July 23 2014


    Baku says OSCE Minsk Group almost lost its significance

    23 July 2014, 18:21 (GMT+05:00)
    By Jamila Babayeva

    The OSCE Minsk Group has almost lost its significance and Azerbaijani
    people don't trust it any more.

    Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees
    and IDPs Ali Hasanov made the remark at a commemoration ceremony on
    the 21st anniversary of occupation of Azerbaijan's Aghdam region by
    Armenia.

    Hasanov underscored that throughout history, Azerbaijani people have
    been in trusting relationships with their neighbors. "The OSCE Minsk
    Group would be better to teach Armenia to trust, rather than
    Azerbaijan," he stressed.

    The official expressed regret that Azerbaijan is once again holding
    the occupation anniversary of Aghdam region rather than its liberation
    anniversary adding that sooner or later, Aghdam and all occupied
    territories of Azerbaijan will be liberated from the Armenian
    occupation.

    Hasanov further told journalists that the member states and co-chairs
    of the OSCE Minsk Group should abandon the policy of double standards.

    He underscored that the OSCE Minsk Group, engaged in the settlement of
    the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, should take notes
    from the latest speech of President Ilham Aliyev at the session of the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

    Hasanov stressed that the OSCE Minsk Group should either resolve the
    problem, or step aside, paving the way for the conflicting parties to
    settle their problems by themselves.

    "If the Armenian people want to live in prosperity, they should first
    get rid of the current regime and re-establish good relations with
    Azerbaijan. Otherwise, they will continue to live in poverty," he
    said.

    Hasanov emphasized Azerbaijan will eventually liberate its territories
    occupied by Armenia.

    Speaking about the Azerbaijani civilians taken hostage by the Armenian
    forces, Hasanov said Azerbaijan views them as heroes and they
    shouldn't be accused of violating laws under any circumstances.

    Hasanov said that the Azerbaijanis (reportedly Shahbaz Guliyev, Dilgam
    Asgarov and Hasan Hasanov) were taken hostage by Armenians while
    visiting the graves of their relatives.There is no information about
    them so far.

    Armenia violated the international legal norms by taking hostage the
    Azerbaijani civilians as they didn't violate any border law between
    Armenia and Azerbaijan. They were on their own native Kalbajar region.

    Commenting on the related reports of the Armenian media, the deputy
    prime minister underscored that the Armenian side accused the captured
    Azerbaijanis of committing various crimes.

    Hasanov said the Armenian media reported that Shahbaz Guliyev and
    Dilgam Asgarov have repeatedly visited the occupied territories of
    Kalbajar region.

    "At the time of their visit, a 17-year-old Armenian was killed there
    and Armenians, failing to solve the issue began to accuse Guliyev and
    Asgarov of committing the murder," he noted.

    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 caused a brutal war in the early 1990s.

    The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have
    not been enforced to this day.

    Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the US and the OSCE Minsk
    Group are underway on the basis of a peaceful outline -called Madrid
    Principle -proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs. The negotiations
    have been largely fruitless so far.

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