Polish leader: Both territorial integrity and self-rule basis for Karabakh settlement
BAKU – Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has said the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh must be settled based on both the territorial integrity of states and self-determination of nations.
Komorowski, who is visiting Armenia, made the statement at a press conference with President Serzh Sargsyan on Friday.
Azerbaijan and Armenia waged a brutal war in the early 1990s. About 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory, including the Nagorno Karabakh region, has been under the occupation of Armenian armed forces since a ceasefire was signed in 1994.
The status of Nagorno Karabakh has been a stumbling block in the ongoing peace talks. Baku says the occupied districts must be freed and Azerbaijani refugees returned home, and only after that could the region's status be determined within Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, while Armenia insists that self-determination is the core principle for a settlement of the dispute. OSCE mediators brokering peace talks are seeking a solution based simultaneously on both principles.
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