EU Parliament fully supports Azerbaijan's Territorial Integrity
The European Parliament is
supportive of territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan as it has
been stressed before in the resolutions of the European Parliament and the UN
Security Council (UNSC), EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
(PCC) said in a statement.
BAKU (Sputnik) — Earlier in September, the European Parliament's
delegation visited Baku to participate in the meeting of the EU-Azerbaijan PCC.
During their visit, the European officials have also held a number of meetings
with Azerbaijani leadership.
"We clearly understand geopolitical realia and challenges,
Azerbaijan faces today, particularly a challenge related to the
Armenian-Azerbaijani, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts and we state resolutely
that the European Parliament fully supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity
and sovereignty, as stressed in the European Parliament resolutions adopted on
May 20, 2010 and October 23, 2013, the resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884
adopted by the UNSC in 1993," the statement published on the website of
Azerbaijan's parliament said on Wednesday.
Baku and Brussels have been cooperating with the framework of the
EU-Azerbaijan PCC since 2000. The members of the joint committee meet annually
and discuss a number of issues, including energy cooperation, the European
Neighbourhood Policy, the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis as well as human rights.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988, when the autonomous
region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. The
region proclaimed independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The
move triggered a war that lasted until a Russia-brokered ceasefire was signed
in 1994. Azerbaijan insists on maintaining its territorial integrity, while
Armenia is defending the interests of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, which has not been part of the peace talks conducted since 1992.
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