Azerbaijan, Baku, July 6 / Trend , A.Huseynbala/
The head of the Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijani community has not excluded possibility of visiting Shusha and Khankandi as part of the next visits.
"The delegation which left Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh last week also comprises a member of our community," Head of the Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijani community Bayram Safarov told Trend on July 6.
Azerbaijani and Armenian Ambassadors to Russia Polad Bul-Bul oglu and Armen Smbatian, as well as Head of Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography Mikhail Shvydko are on visit in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. On July 3, Smbatian, Polad Bul-Bul oglu and Shvydko met with the President of the unrecognized NKR Bako Saakyan in Khankandi, the Armenian media reported.
A six-member Azerbaijani delegation, as well as two members of the Azerbaijani parliament Asim Mollazade and Rovshan Rzayev and composer Siyavush Karimi arrived in Khankandi.
The Azerbaijani delegation left for Armenia and met with President Serzh Sargsyan.
At the end of the day, the Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, as well.
This is the second visit of the Azerbaijani and Armenian ambassadors to Russia to the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani intelligentsia visited Khankandi, Yerevan and Baku on June 28 in 2007 upon the initiative of the two countries' ambassadors to Russia.
Safarov said during the co-chairs' visit to Azerbaijan, they will make every efforts to organize a meeting of the community with the mediators.
"Meetings with the international organizations have a familiarization character. I believe the meeting with the OSCE chairperson-in-office who arrived in Azerbaijan last week will be useful for future of our activity," the head of the community said.
Headquarters have been given to the community, Safarov said. "But it is necessary to repair this site. As now we have new headquarters, our activity will strengthen more. We will seek to act to meet interests of the Azerbaijani people of the Nagorno-Karabakh," he said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
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