"Armenia must begin withdrawing its forces from Azerbaijan's territories following logic of presidents' statement"

Following the statement of the presidents of the OSCE MinskGroup co-chairing countries, Armenia must begin withdrawing its forces from Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

It is necessary to make this action to open up the opportunities for internally displaced people to return to their houses, the communications to be restored in the region and more predictability to be created in the region, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S, President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on the Armenian leaders to demonstrate political will and to finalize the basic principles during the upcoming Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in June.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said that in the adopted statement Medvedev, Obama and Sarkozy consider the status quo in the existing situation on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as unacceptable. The Azerbaijani side has also repeatedly stated about this.

"The presidents of three countries refer on the documents and principles. They have been repeatedly discussed . The necessity of withdrawing the Armenian forces from Azerbaijani territories is raised in all of them. Consequently, the Armenian side must understand that the world community does not accept the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

"Azerbaijan's position remains unchanged," the ministry said."Withdrawing the Armenian armed forces and returning the internally displaced people to their houses will allow us to move to the next step to create favorable conditions for the coexistence of Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh."

The Foreign Ministry regrets that having a clear position of the international community regarding the withdrawal of Armenian forces from Azerbaijani territories, Armenia still delays the process and prevents the peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.


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