Azerbaijani National NGO Forum presents new Nagorno-Karabakh project

Azerbaijani National NGOs Forum will implement a new project in Azerbaijan in order to bring the truth about the Nagorno-Karabakh to the world community.

"This project will give new impetus to the systematic and successive bringing of the truth about Karabakh to the world community's attention, as well as will fill in the existing vacuum" Azerbaijani National NGO Forum head Rauf Zeyni said.

According to him, new opportunities for cooperation between national NGOs and international organizations will be opened within the implementation of the project.

Zeyni stressed that a "Nagorno-Karabakh Center" will be established at the office of the National NGOs Forum. "The truth about Karabakh will be periodically brought to the world community's attention through this centre," Zeyni said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied territories.


/Trend/