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Azerbaijan and NATO are enjoying good relations in different fields, particularly in the field of security, Julian Kifu, the Romanian presidential advisor on strategic issues, security and foreign policy, told journalists.

"Azerbaijan is NATO`s partner in transportation of military equipments to Afghanistan. Azerbaijan is also enjoying cooperation with the European Union (EU), with the Eastern Partnership Program to be especially underlined," he said.

Touching upon the frozen conflicts, Kifu said that mechanisms should be determined to struggle with this problem.

"In this field, NATO and the EU offer mechanisms for Azerbaijan. Separatist forces exist in the region. Settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is difficult, but there are still opportunities to come agreement between the parties," he added.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenia's withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

A precarious cease-fire was signed in 1994. However, units of the Armenian armed forces commit armistice breaches on the frontline almost every day.