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By Sara Rajabova

Public hearings on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Khojaly genocide committed by Armenian armed forces against Azerbaijani civilians during the 1990s war have been held in the Indonesian parliament.

The commission on foreign affairs of the Indonesian parliament and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Indonesia were the organizers of the hearings.

Parliament officials, representatives of the Foreign Ministry, as well as representatives of the media and analysts attended the hearings. Statements from parliament representatives, as well as Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Indonesia Tamerlan Garayev were heard.

Also, the Peruvian parliament recently approved a decision on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Khojaly genocide, which was committed by the Armenian forces in 1992.

The document says that the four UN Security Council resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh have not yet been fulfilled by Armenia and pointed to the tens of billions of dollars of damage caused to Azerbaijan as a result of the conflict.

The Peruvian legislators also emphasized that a cease-fire was reached between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1994, the violations of the cease-fire regime continue and such instances have intensified since 2003.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against the neighboring country. Since the lengthy war between the two South Caucasus countries that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis and ended with the signing of a precarious cease-fire in 1994, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Peace talks brokered by OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs representing the United States, Russia and France have been largely fruitless so far.

The negotiations are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles, also known as Basic Principles. The document envisions a return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control; determining the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh; a corridor linking Armenia to the region; and the right of all internally displaced persons to return home.