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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko phoned President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on April 5, Azertac state news agency reports.

President Poroshenko expressed his concern over the recent events on the line of contact of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.

The heads of states stressed the importance of peacefully solving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within international organizations based on the norms and principles of international law.

The President of Ukraine said his country's position on settlement of the conflict within sovereignty, territorial integrity and internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan remained unchanged.

During the conversation, the presidents of Azerbaijan and Ukraine exchanged views over the prospects of bilateral relations.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

Over the entire period of its existence, the OSCE Minsk Group, which acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, failed to move forward in resolving the long lasting conflict, although the interested parties had pinned great hopes on it.

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