Interfax, Russia
Dec 23 2010
Azerbaijan “can see no progress” in Nagorno-Karabakh talks
BAKU. Dec 23
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday complained that talks to
settle the two-decade conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over
Azerbaijan’s disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
have not been marked by any progress but promised that his country
would bring the region back under its control.
“In practice we can see no progress, and Azerbaijan has been suffering
from occupation [the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenian
forces] for a long time,” Aliyev said at the 11th summit in Istanbul
of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), a Tehran-headquartered
intergovernmental organization whose 10 member states are chiefly
Asian.
Aliyev accused Armenia of ignoring decisions on the conflict by the
United Nations Security Council and other international organizations
that are “a very solid basis” for settlement.
“We will not put up with this situation, of course. We will restore
our territorial integrity. We are trying to do this in a peaceful way,
through negotiations,” he said.
Aliyev said Nagorno-Karabakh is generally recognized worldwide as part
of Azerbaijan and that Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity “is not and
never will be up for any negotiations.”
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From: A. Papazian