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The hard-line Garabagh Liberation Organization (GLO) has said Azerbaijan should discontinue peace talks on the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict under way with Armenia.
"The negotiations do not meet Azerbaijan's interests," the group's chairman Akif Naghi told a conference, "Garabagh talks leading to defeatist peace and society", on Friday.
He said negotiating with the regime in Armenia was wrong, as the individuals represented in the country's highest echelons of power were directly involved in the invasion of Azerbaijan's territories and the killings of innocent Azerbaijanis.
In a statement passed in conclusion of the event, the GLO demanded to immediately halt the OSCE Minsk Group-brokered talks and ban visits by representatives of international groups to Upper Garabagh through Armenian territory.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus republics reared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims. Armenia has been occupying over 20% of Azerbaijan's internationally-recognized territory since the early 1990s. Years of peace talks have brought little tangible result. Azerbaijani officials have repeatedly warned against Armenia's policy of aggression, saying the country's land will be freed at any cost.