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Armenia violated international norms, says top official

02 March 2015 [17:20] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

Yerevan continues to hold a destructive position and doesn’t recognize international law, a top Azerbaijani official said.

While commenting on Armenia’s refusal to return the Azerbaijani nationals its armed forces captured, Head of the Public and Political Issues Department of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Presidential Aide Ali Hasanov said Armenia made its position obvious to the world.

Three Azerbaijani nationals - Hasan Hasanov, Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev - were captured in the Shaplar village of Azerbaijan’s occupied Kalbajar district on July 11, 2014 by Armenia special forces.

Hasanov was reported killed after enduring brutal torture.

Asgarov and Guliyev were judged in a show trial in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region and subsequently sentenced to life in prison and 22 years imprisonment respectively on fictitious charges.

"Basically, this country violates all norms of the international law. Double standards dominate in the world and no reaction has been registered vis a vis Armenia's actions," Hasanov noted.

"But, Azerbaijan warns Armenia, including certain circles behind it, that a state shouldn’t be built and governed on such current statements, thoughts and political views,” Hasanov added.

Hasanov called on Armenian rulers to reckon with the interests of their people, if they at least have a little respect for international law.

"Armenia's future is under question given the fact that Armenia has turned its own people into hostages and cherishes baseless territorial claims against its neighbors," added Hasanov.

He recalled that Armenia is an aggressor who forcibly invaded Azerbaijani lands and occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory in the 1990s.

In view of the puppet regime's actions in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, Hasanov warned that Azerbaijan will correspondingly react to any unilateral move, political, and social action in the occupied lands.

Focusing on the upcoming illegal parliamentary election in the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh republic" due this May, Hasanov said Azerbaijan would asses any step taken by the puppet regime in these territories as an act of aggression on another country's territory.

Earlier on February 27, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry slammed the election scam planned to be held in the occupied Azerbaijani lands calling it illegal and ineffective.

As for the Ministry, this deliberate move mainly aimed to undermine peace talks and prevent any breakthrough in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Back in 1992, following a violent and bloody conflict, Armenia occupied one fifth of Azerbaijan territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has yet to comply with UN Security Council resolutions calling for the liberation of all occupied territories.

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