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Bundestag member Mark Hauptmann has urged the international community to exert pressure on Armenia to force it to return the occupied Azerbaijani lands.

In an article published by Südthüringen Kurier newspaper, the MP called on Armenia to remain committed to peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “In violation of international law Armenia does not withdraw its troops from Azerbaijan’s occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region although the OSCE and UN Security Council demanded this in their resolutions back in 1993.”

Hauptmann said that de-occupation of Azerbaijan`s territories was of crucial importance for the conflict resolution.

“The frozening of the conflict is unacceptable,” he added.

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.

When the situation in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region has exploded unexpectedly following Armenia’s provocation, the international community, including the mediators realized danger of a status-quo and the urgency of solving the conflict.

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