NATO backs efforts for finding peaceful solution to Nagorno-Karabakh

/By Azernews/

The North Atlantic Alliance urges the sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to reduce the tension and refrain from violence.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made the remark while talking to reporters ahead of the Warsaw Summit on July 8, RIA Novosti reported.

Stoltenberg said NATO will mention the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the final communiqué of the Warsaw summit.

 “Our message is that we urge both sides [of the conflict] to reduce the tension, to refrain from violence and continue the attempts to find a peaceful solution based on the negotiations,” he added. “We support all the efforts for finding a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on negotiations.”

NATO has repeatedly announced that it takes an interest in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and encouraged the conflict sides to continue their efforts aimed at a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

President Ilham Aliyev is already in Warsaw to attend the summit of the Alliance, where the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict maybe discussed.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the 1990s war, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, while the OSCE MG deals with the conflict resolution.