Ali Hasanov: “if Azerbaijan Begins to Liberate Its Lands, It We'll Be Able to Liberate the Lands Occupied Long Before, Not Only in the 1990s”

Deputy PM and Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov has commented on the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ visit to Kalbajar and Lachin.

Ali Hasanov told journalists that the OSCE Minsk Group fact-finding mission paid visits to the occupied regions in 2005 and 2010, APA reports.

He said they detected the facts of illegal settlement process that runs contrary to the international conventions during both visits: “In 2010, the fact-finding mission reported that 14,000 Armenians were settled in the occupied regions. Later on, this number was recorded 18,000. However, Azerbaijani sources say up to 25,000 people...