Poland backs Karabakh conflict settlement within Azerbaijan's territorial integrity
By Rashid Shirinov
Poland supports settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and on the basis of four resolutions of the UN Security Council.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said this at the expanded meeting with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, held with the participation of delegations of the two countries in Warsaw on June 27.
Duda further stressed that the official visit of President Ilham Aliyev to Poland will become an impulse for the beginning of a new stage in the development of relations between Azerbaijan and Poland.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with signing of a fragile ceasefire in 1994. Since the war, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.
While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign state with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.
Armenia ignores four UN Security Council resolutions on immediate withdrawal from the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, thus keeping tension high in the region.
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