The issue of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be raised by the Azerbaijani delegation at the the summer session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on July 1-5, the Azerbaijani parliament’s vice-speaker, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA, Bahar Muradova, said.
"Of course, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of the issues on the agenda, it will definitely be raised during the session," Trend cited her as saying.
Muradova reminded that the special representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for the South Caucasus, Christian Vigenin, recently visited the region. It is expected that he will also address the meeting.
"We will try to attract the PA attention to the new realities that emerged after the April clashes on the contact line and to the current state of the negotiation process," Muradova explained.
Recall, on the night of April 2 all frontier positions of Azerbaijan were exposed to heavy fire from large-caliber weapons, mortars, grenade launchers and guns. In addition, Azerbaijani settlements near the front line, densely populated by civilians, were shelled.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20% of Azerbaijan, 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 not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
