Nagorno-Karabakh conflict not resolved yet, Security Council Secretary says

YEREVAN, September 24. /ARKA/. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not been resolved and the issue of its status awaits a solution, Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan said at a press briefing today.

"The only platform for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group. There was a statement from all Minsk Group co-chairs that it is necessary to resume negotiations under their aegis and discuss the status issue," he said.

Grigoryan stressed that Armenia supports a settlement within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group.

"The Karabakh issue has always been a question of self-determination and must be settled within the framework of the right of its to self-determination," he said.

Today, speaking at the UN General Assembly session, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that "the Karabakh conflict is a thing of the past and there is no administrative-territorial unit in the country called Nagorno-Karabakh."

On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and  phosphorus weapons.

After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. 

A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. -0-