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By Sara Rajabova

University of Oslo hosted a book exhibition highlighting the realities of Karabakh.

The exhibition featured demonstration of video material, books, and booklets on the occupation of Azerbaijan's territories by Armenia, the Khojaly genocide, and Armenia's terrorism.

The participants were given material on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

Addressing the event, Azerbaijani ambassador to Norway Adish Mammadov provided an insight into the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.

Mammadov also presented several copies of the books featured at the fair to the library of the University of Oslo.