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PARIS'S STATEMENT ON STARTING WORK ON GREAT PEACE DEAL IS PROGRESS
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 4 2014
4 November 2014, 11:35 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani foreign policy head said though no tangible results
were achieved during the recent meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents in Paris, French President Francois Hollande's statement
saying it is time to start working over a great peace agreement is
a progress.
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov made the remark at a briefing on
November 3 speaking about the meeting between Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
The two presidents held a meeting on October 27 with the participation
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to discuss the settlement process
of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They held a face to face meeting,
which was followed by another joint meeting with the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs. Afterwards, a joint meeting attended by President
Hollande, President Aliyev, President Sargsyan and the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen took place.
Mammadyarov also stressed that it is necessary to continue working
over the issues that have not yet been agreed yet.
He said that the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting will take place in
Basel (Switzerland) in early December. A meeting of foreign ministers
of the two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is also expected
to be held with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen.
Mammadyarov underlined that an important condition for the talks is
the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied territories. He
said the mediators have agreed on this issue.
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. Long-standing
efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely
fruitless so far.
As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.
The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 4 2014
4 November 2014, 11:35 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani foreign policy head said though no tangible results
were achieved during the recent meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents in Paris, French President Francois Hollande's statement
saying it is time to start working over a great peace agreement is
a progress.
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov made the remark at a briefing on
November 3 speaking about the meeting between Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
The two presidents held a meeting on October 27 with the participation
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to discuss the settlement process
of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They held a face to face meeting,
which was followed by another joint meeting with the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs. Afterwards, a joint meeting attended by President
Hollande, President Aliyev, President Sargsyan and the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen took place.
Mammadyarov also stressed that it is necessary to continue working
over the issues that have not yet been agreed yet.
He said that the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting will take place in
Basel (Switzerland) in early December. A meeting of foreign ministers
of the two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is also expected
to be held with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen.
Mammadyarov underlined that an important condition for the talks is
the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied territories. He
said the mediators have agreed on this issue.
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. Long-standing
efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely
fruitless so far.
As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.
The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.