Armenia's 'non-constructive' stance main obstacle Azerbaijan President

The high-level meeting was a proof that Azerbaijan and Turkey are on the same page on critical issues, Azerbaijan President Aliyev, said at a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mentioning the Upper Karabakh conflict, Aliyev thanked his Turkish counterpart for “always supporting the righteous cause” of Azerbaijan at the international stage.

Aliyev stressed that Azerbaijan always supports the “righteous causes” of Turkey and always stands by Turkish people in all matters in the global arena. “Sometimes they [Armenians] say that Upper Karabakh is [part of] Armenia, sometimes they say that Upper Karabakh is an independent country. It seems that they don't know themselves what is the Upper Karabakh. If they don't know, we can tell them, the Upper Karabakh is Azerbaijan,” Aliyev added.

Aliyev said that all countries recognize and support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. “Unfortunately, the non-constructive and negative stance of Armenia is the main obstacle in solving the dispute,” he said. “Azerbaijan will continue purchasing modern weapons from Turkey,” Aliyev said, adding that they also discussed the joint production during the meeting.

The leaders signed the MoU on the construction of Kars-Nakhchivan railway, he said. Aliyev also hailed Turkey as the “center of power in the world's scale” thanks to the “tireless efforts” of Erdogan. Upper Karabakh is the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan illegally occupied by Armenia through military aggression since 1991.

Four UN Security Council and two General Assembly resolutions, as well as decisions by many other international organizations, refer to this fact and demand withdrawal of the occupational Armenian forces from Upper Karabakh and seven other occupied regions of Azerbaijan. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk group -- co-chaired by France, Russia, and the U.S. -- was formed to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but has not reached any results yet.

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