Azerbaijan will achieve restoration of 1 million odd refugees’ and IDPs’ rights violated as a result of Armenian aggression, it is stated in the appeal of AR President, Ilham Aliyev addressed to the participants of Baku Ombudsmen’s Conference launched on June 18 in the capital.
It was emphasized in the appeal that in the modern world, where special attention is paid to human rights, Azerbaijan underwent political genocide and ethnic cleaning by Armenia, and as a result, millions of citizens’ rights were violated.
“Azerbaijan intends to mobilize its power in order to ensure its citizens’ rights due to the challenge of millennium”, the President emphasized. Ilham Aliyev underlined that protection of human rights and increase of citizens’ role in the society is one of the principal aims of the state, and it unites all efforts to respond the mankind’s appeal, as well as establish a new strategy of developing close relations between the society and the state.
The conflict between the two countries of South Caucasia started in 1988 over territorial claims raised by Armenia against Azerbaijan. 20 percent of the Azerbaijan territory – Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts are under Armenian occupation. In 1994, the parties signed the ceasefire agreement and since then, the co-chairs to the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the USA are holding unsuccessful peaceful negotiations.
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