The call for peace in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh in the statement of Pope Francis in Yerevan calls to end Armenia’s illegal occupation of Azerbaijani territories, complete withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijani territories, including from Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, as well as to return Azerbaijani IDPs and refugees, who got subjected to bloody ethnic cleansing, to their native lands, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesperson of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, said in a statement June 27.

OSCE Minsk Group’s US co-chair James Warlick says the meetings between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia “bring us closer to a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.”

According to Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces readiness plan for 2016, an operational-tactical exercise that started on June 19 is being continued.

Uzbek Ziyouz.uz portal has published an article on Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the initiative of Azerbaijani Embassy in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan Culture Center named after Heydar Aliyev.

Armenian “diplomats” are desperately trying to mount their own way to interpret international law, legal documents adopted by the international community and to show the world the absurdity of their claims, Hikmet Hajiyev, spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, told Trend June 10.