OSCE supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has adopted a resolution on Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and the inviolability of its borders.

The author of the resolution on “Adherence to the Helsinki principles in inter-state relations across the OSCE area,” which was adopted at the summer session of the OSCE PA, is Azay Guliyev, the Azerbaijani MP and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Political Affairs and Security of the OSCE PA.

The document expresses deep concern over the conflicts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

It also noted the importance resolving the conflicts based on the norms and principles of international law, in particular the principle of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and inviolability of borders.

The resolution highlights the need for parties to the conflicts to fulfill the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and ensure the unconditional return of the populations of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, which have become displaced by conflicts.

One of the most important articles of the resolution states that the right of people to self-determination is inadmissible at the expense of the violation of territorial integrity of states or the sovereignty and political independence of the country.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor and causing a lengthy war in the early 1990s.

After the occupation of these territories, it formed a separatist regime in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region. Having not been satisfied with violation of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, the Armenian aggressors attempted to achieve the recognition of the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.”

Azerbaijan, however, has always stated that it would not allow the establishment second Armenian state in its internationally-recognized territories under any circumstances.

The adoption of the resolution “Adherence to the Helsinki principles in inter-state relations across the OSCE area” once again shows that Armenia’s claims against Azerbaijan are unfounded and confirms that the international community recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as an integral part of Azerbaijan.