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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday his country will never allow the establishment in its territories of ‘a second state" by Armenians, who have been occupying part of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory for over a decade.
President Aliyev noted, further, that the world community, and OSCE mediators brokering peace talks in particular, are offering a conflict settlement complying with the territorial integrity principle.
"I am confident that this approach will help us to swiftly resolve the problem, because all norms of international law are on our side," Aliyev told the opening of a building constructed for those disabled during the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh war with Armenia and war victim families in the Lokbatan settlement, 15 km away from Baku.
"Upper Garabagh is an integral part of Azerbaijan," he said, reiterating that the Azerbaijani region will never be an independent state.
"The whole world knows this. And the sooner Armenia realizes this truth, the sooner the problem will find its solution. Once it has been resolved, peace in the region could be fully restored, as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the biggest problem facing the region. Without having resolved it, no other problem can find its solution."
The Garabagh conflict began in 1988 on Armenian territorial claims. Since the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan including the Upper Garabagh region and its seven surrounding districts, despite four standing UN resolutions on unconditional pullout of Armenian troops and condemnation by a number of other international organizations.*