Nagorno-Karabakh only problem of Azerbaijani people: Deputy PM
By Sara Rajabova
Failure of the world community to put pressure on the aggressor country Armenia is an injustice towards Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the State Committee for Affairs of Refugees and IDPs, Ali Hasanov made remarks at a meeting with Iran's Health and Medical Education Minister's Special Envoy Mohammad Hossein Somi on April 16, the Committee said.
Hasanov further said the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the most painful and the only problem of the Azerbaijani people.
The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, left 700,000 civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh without homes.
They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan.
Moreover, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia and became refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijanis who had displaced from their homes as result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents and wagons in very difficult conditions.
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.