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Ankara says int’l community not interested in Karabakh conflict settlement

5 March 2014 15:53 (UTC+04:00)
Ankara says int’l community not interested in Karabakh conflict settlement

By Jamila Babayeva

The occupation of Azerbaijani lands is one of the problems in the region, Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Cicek said in an interview with TRT Haber.

Cicek said the problem is that the international community is not particularly interested in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

He noted that Ankara has always paid special attention to the resolution of this conflict.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.

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