Ogtay Asadov: Karabakh conflict resolution to contribute to ensuring peace, security in Eurasia
By Rashid Shirinov
Concerted efforts of parliaments of Eurasian countries may bring about solution to regional problems, including the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Ogtay Asadov, the speaker of Azerbaijan's Parliament.
He made the remarks while addressing the 2nd Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries' Parliaments in Seoul, South Korea on June 27.
“Parliaments have great responsibility for addressing the problems and conflicts we all face,” Asadov noted.
He called on Parliaments to spare no efforts to establish peace and security in Eurasia, including in the South Caucasus.
Asadov drew the audience's attention to Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan: “Twenty percent of our territories are under occupation, and more than a million Azerbaijanis live as refugees and IDPs as a result of this conflict.”
He noted that for many years Azerbaijan has been urging the international community to establish justice and ensure the implementation of documents and resolutions of international organizations. Asadov reiterated the necessity of ensuring the implementation of four resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council in 1993, a resolution of the UN General Assembly adopted in 2008, and a resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2005, as well as many other resolutions by other international organizations.
Asadov expressed his confidence that finding a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and other similar problems and disputes will contribute to ensuring peace, stability, justice and security in Eurasia.
Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the war.
Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal.
Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. within the OSCE Minsk Group have produced no results so far.
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