Parliament holds hearings on tensions on frontline
Azerbaijan’s Parliament held the hearings on the "Recent developments along the line of contact: Problems of the international humanitarian law" on May 13.
MPs heard the report on the consequences of the four-day war in April and current state of the peace talks on the Armenian Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijan has started a decisive stage to eliminate the consequences of Armenian aggression, liberate its occupied territories and restore its territorial integrity, said Khalaf Khalafov, Deputy Foreign Minister addressing the event.
Noting that Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan stand at the root of the conflict, Khalafov expressed regret over the fact that the conflict is called the NagornoKarabakh conflict.
"Unfortunately, the former authorities of Azerbaijan failed to prevent it and in 1992, at the time of adoption of the Helsinki document on the conflict, it was named the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said. "In reality, it is the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan are the root of this conflict."
He went on to say that Armenia is interested in staging provocations in the process of settlement of the conflict and has to date staged numerous provocations along the line of contact.
Armenia's main purpose is to protract the conflict and achieve the problem's settlement in line with its own interests, he said, reminding that Azerbaijan has always suppressed the attempts taken to fulfill those plans.
Armenia, which is responsible for the early April clashes on the line of contact, has chosen the aggressive policy, said the deputy FM.
He reminded that Azerbaijan faced humanitarian problems as a result of the Armenian aggression. "Currently, the European Union is in perplexity after having faced the problem of a million refugees, whereas Azerbaijan coped with the problem of refugees and IDPs on its own," said Khalafov.
Spokesman for Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry Vagif Dargahli, addressing