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By Nazrin Gadimova

Elnur Aslanov, head of the political analysis and information provision department at the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, said that the meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia is expected.

According to Aslanov, if Armenia demonstrates a constructive attitude, then something from this meeting can be expected.

"If Armenia retreats from its policy of occupation, it will provide the basis for the establishment of peace and stability," he said.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict emerging from 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. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been unsuccessful so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.