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By Laman Sadigova

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry investigated the report disseminated by Armenian media that the delegation comprised of farmers of the separatist regime established by Armenia in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan visited Iran in October 2015 and met with Iranian officials.

The ministry conducted the investigation through its diplomatic channels, trying to find out the real state of things.

The spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Hikmat Hajiyev, said that the Iranian embassy in Baku in its response note to the Ministry refuted the recent report of the Armenian media.

Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the war.

Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal.

Armenia is unwilling to peacefully resolve the long-standing conflict and is interested in and determined to maintain the current status quo that means keeping part of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory under occupation.

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