Presidential Aide, Head of Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Hikmat Hajiyev has said that Armenia discourages negotiation process on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

President of the OSCE PA George Tsereteli has voiced its concern over the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which he said is a painful conflict for Europe.

The word “population”, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used with reference to the people of the Nagorno-Karabkh, in his statement made in Baku on December 3, is in line with the spirit of statements by the Azerbaijani community of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Armenia’s occupation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the adjacent seven districts has caused environmental crisis in the region.

Azerbaijan’s Representative to the United Nations Yashar Aliyev has said that Armenia’s denial of aggression against Azerbaijan is a challenge to the international law.

Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov has said Armenia has driven itself into the transport and economic impasse with its destructive policy.

OSCE Minsk Group that negotiates the peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, has said that the current status quo around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is unacceptable, while commending certain humanitarian measures taken recently.

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said that elimination of major consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, that is the withdrawal of the occupying troops, must be the first step in resolving the conflict with Armenia.

Over the past 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 22 times, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Dec. 9, Trend reports.

The events on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and in connection with the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime will be held at the UN headquarters on December 9, Trend reports.

The European Union (EU) doesn’t recognize constitutional and legal framework within which so-called “elections” are being held in Nagorno-Karabakh, said EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini, Trend reports.

The Azerbaijani community of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region has expressed a protest against the visits paid by some members of the European Parliament to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani community of the Nagorno-Karabakh region Dec. 6.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar on the sidelines of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Bratislava, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minster Elmar Mammadyarov has discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan at a meeting held in Bratislava, Slovakia on December 4.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Austria circulated the information on its official Twitter account with regard to a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on December 3. The document reiterates Azerbaijan’s stance, a red line which should not be crossed.

The meeting of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs has started in Slovakia, Trend reports on Dec. 4 referring to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Twitter page.

Armenia is responsible for occupying Azerbaijani lands and exercising control over these territories, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva said on December 2.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said substantive negotiations are needed on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, ahead of his meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan to be held in Bratislava on December 4.

Another ceasefire monitoring exercise on the contact line of the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the territory of Azerbaijan's Fuzuli district on Dec. 4, 2019, held in accordance with the mandate of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, ended with no incidents, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Members of the Azerbaijani community of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region are visiting Brussels, Ahmad Mahmudov, representative of the community, told Trend Dec. 4.

The Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, in accordance with its mandate, plans to conduct the next ceasefire monitoring exercise on the contact line of the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the territory of Azerbaijan's Fuzuli region on Dec. 4, 2019, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva has said that the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of which Armenia is a member, has nothing to do with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Baku and Yerevan.

Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Erkan Ozoral has said that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved within Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and in line with the international law.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement in Baku during his official visit Dec. 2-3, Trend reports referring to the Russian Foreign Ministry Dec. 2.

Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers will meet Dec. 4 in Bratislava city, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Dec. 2.