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Pakistan adopts resolution condemning Armenian occupation

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The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of Pakistan’s National Assembly has passed a resolution condemning the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia, said a message posted on the Pakistani TV channel’s website khybernews.tv.

Elkhan Suleymanov: Armenian side intensifies provocations against Azerbaijan

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Armenian lobby and other anti-Azerbaijani forces are deeply concerned about Azerbaijan’s recent achievements on various issues on foreign policy, particularly within international organizations.  These achievements mainly include two issues – failure of attempts to pressure with the issues of so-called human rights violations and political prisoner and the adoption of the resolutions on ongoing occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and other seven territories of Azerbaijan. While the indication of success on the issue of political prisoner was negative vote of the vast majority of PACE members against the report by German MP Christoph Strasser in 2013, the other was the resolution on the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and other seven territories of Azerbaijan. The recent resolution in this regard is the PACE Resolution 2085 (2016) titled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” by Bosnian MP Milica Markovic. The resolution:

French website posts article about Nagorno Karabakh conflict

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The French website islamnews.fr has posted an article titled “Azerbaijan urges for observance of international law for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict”.

The article highlights that the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has begun at the beginning of the XX century (in 1919 by the British and in 1921 by the Soviet power), noting that the territory belongs to Azerbaijan. It is stated that in February 1988 and May 1994 in Nagorno-Karabakh, located in the southwest of Azerbaijan, there were again heard volleys of heavy weapons.