The prestigious international organizations expressed their attitude towards the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh within the framework of keeping the territorial integrity, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated in an interview with AzTV as a result of the Summit of the CIS State Heads.
The State Head said that generally the activities of the international organizations over the recent period satisfy Azerbaijan. Of course, it strengthens our position. In general each question can be resolved in certain frameworks international law, norm and principles. No question can be resolved outside these frameworks, and beginning of any precedents in the future may impose serious problems for other countries. Therefore, we once again stress that the principal position of Azerbaijan remains unchanged the territorial integrity of the country should be restored. The population living in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh will be presented the highest status of self-governance within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the State Head said.
According to him, for already three years, the negotiations regarding the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been held within the Prague process. Within this period, many meetings took place at the level of Foreign Ministers and Presidents of the two countries. Naturally these meeting focused on the ways of resolving the problem. There were stages when we came to the concluding results of the negotiations, and it is possible to say that the positions of the sides have fully reformed. We are at the level when the future negotiations depend on our negotiations. In this plan, I consider the results of the recent meeting as normal, Aliyev said.
In addition, he said that the recent meeting in Minsk took place in a constructive manner and the disputable questions were discussed. Over the recent period, we have achieved the solution of several questions and agreed upon previously uncoordinated issues. But principal issues representing difference still remains. Both Presidents hold talks around this aspect, Aliyev said.
Touching on the position of Azerbaijan, he said that the position of Azerbaijan remains unchanged. Azerbaijan insists on the solution of the problem within the territorial integrity of the country. Each of the 4 Resolutions of the U.N. Security Council should be implemented, the occupied territories of Azerbaijan should be released and more than one million Azerbaijanis should return to their native lands, the President of Azerbaijan said.
