Azeri president urges intl community to step up Karabakh settlement
BAKU. June 2 (Interfax) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev urged the international community and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to work more actively to settle the Armenian-Azeri conflict peacefully.
"I hope that the international community and the OSCE will work more actively on this issue in order to restore international law and historical justice, and to allow Azerbaijan to start restoration work after the liberation of the occupied territory," Aliyev said on Monday after talks with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Chairman-in-Office, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter.
Aliyev said that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijan's historical integral part.
He also said that the UN Security Council passed four resolutions demanding Armenian troops' immediate and unconditional withdrawal from the occupied Azeri territory.
"Despite repeated statements made by the presidents of the states co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group that the status quo is unacceptable, Armenia wants to perpetuate it. If the status quo is to be changed Armenia must start pulling out its troops," Aliyev said.
