ArmInfo. In Stepanakert, they named the basic principles necessary for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
So, in particular, the official representative of the Artsakh President David Babayan is convinced that the following two principles are very important in resolving the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict: "First, without resolving all political issues, including the issue of borders, without mutual recognition of Artsakh and Humanitarian issues cannot be resolved in Azerbaijan. Secondly, one cannot talk only about Azerbaijani refugees, ignoring the Armenian ones. "
In this regard, Babayan recalled that about 700 thousand Armenians left various settlements of then Azerbaijan. "Only over 350 thousand people lived in Baku. There is also the problem of Northern Artsakh, from where hundreds of thousands of people were deported by the Azerbaijani authorities. Getashen, Chardakhlu, Shamkhor, Gandzak are just some of the cities and villages from where the Armenian population was deported. Are these people not should they come back? Of course they should. Thus, if one of these two principles is violated, then it will simply be impossible to achieve progress in a comprehensive settlement, "the representative of the President of Artsakh wrote on his Facebook page. uk Recall that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized during his visit to Yerevan that without the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, a final settlement of the Karabakh conflict cannot be achieved. Later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, answering the question of whether refugees and internally displaced persons living in Azerbaijan now come under the wording "the people of Nagorno- Karabakh", in particular, noted: "The plan for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should provide for the right of everyone internally displaced persons and refugees to return to their former places of residence. "