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By Aynur Jafarova

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has considered the draft resolutions on the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia.

The documents were considered at the PACE meeting on September 2, the member of the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to PACE, Elkhan Suleymanov said.

He noted the draft documents were submitted to the Committee on Political Affairs for the appointment of a rapporteur.

A report on these projects will be called "Growing tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan."

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s.

Long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.