Azerbaijani FM discusses Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with OSCE Secretary General
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier within the 68th session of the UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York.
During the meeting, the sides discussed the cooperation between Azerbaijan and the OSCE and exchanged views on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over 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 largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.