Sweden ready to backs peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Azerbaijani and EU relations within the Eastern Partnership Program, as well as the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were mulled in Baku.
Azay Guliyev, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Council of State
Support for NGOs has met Therese Hydén, official of the Swedish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mirja Peterson, head of Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency and Tomas Danestad,
Charge de Affairs of Embassy of Sweden to Azerbaijan.
Hydén noted Sweden recognized Azerbaijan`s territorial integrity,
adding the country was ready to support peaceful settlement of the
Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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.
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