AZERBAIJAN/OIC: NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT IS ON OIC AGENDA
International Islamic News Agency
June 1 2011
BAKU (Azerbaijan), 28 Jumada 2/May 31 (IINA)-The Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict will be a priority issue on the Organization of the Islamic
Conference’s (OIC) agenda during the meeting of OIC foreign ministers,
OIC official representative Abdul Rauf Bin Rajab told Trend.
“One of the important topics of discussion will be “Armenian aggression
against Azerbaijan,” he said.
Kazakhstan, as the OIC chairing-nation, will hold the 38th Session
of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers-2011, in Astana on June 28-30.
The OIC is the largest Muslim international intergovernmental
organization consisting of 57 Muslim states.
Four more countries, including Russia and the Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus have an observer status in OIC.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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