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By Sara Rajabova

Britain's Windsor town has hosted a conference on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The three-day conference was held under a project of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham, AzerTag news agency reported.

The project is financed by the Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of Azerbaijan.

Participants in the event included experts of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, former diplomats, experts, professors at the Italian Verona, British Kent and Finnish Karelia universities.

The second day of the conference featured a round table called "The Caucasus: the role of foreign and internal powers".

It heard a report "The Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the prism of the British media" by a researcher at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies.

The report criticized coverage of the conflict in the British media as unprofessional and biased, saying it was promoting Armenia`s groundless position.

It expressed regret over the fact that the British media outlets did not feature Azerbaijan`s just position on the dispute. It also said the British media did not investigate the historic aspects of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted back in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis displaced, 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.