Baku, ICRC mull joint activity
By Jamila Babayeva
Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov received head of the Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Denise Duran on July 24.
The sides exchanged views on joint activity of Azerbaijan and the ICRC, the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and humanitarian cooperation, the defense ministry reported.
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.
The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the US and the OSCE Minsk Group are underway on the basis of a peaceful outline -called Madrid Principle -proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.