New Mexico Senate Adopts Resolution Expressing Support to Azerbaijan's Territorial Integrity

The Senate of the U.S. State of New Mexico adopted a resolution dedicated to Azerbaijan on February 13, 2014, the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles told APA. The resolution notes that the United States supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, and the international community does not recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent entity.

It says that the “OSCE Minsk Group is tasked to facilitate negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan toward a political settlement of the conflict based on the principles and norms of international law and the decisions and documents adopted by the OSCE and the applicable UN Security Council resolutions.” In this regard, the resolution stresses that the “UN Security Council in its resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 reaffirmed support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and demanded the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all Armenian forces from all of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.”

It further notes that “the international...