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By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijan's fair position on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be conveyed to the international community.

First Deputy Director General of ITAR-TASS news agency Mikhail Gusman voiced this while talking to Trend Agency on October 3.

"My Azerbaijani colleagues, country's media is doing a lot to bring the just position of Azerbaijan to the world. But I think that the Azerbaijani media should do more so that this position in the face of such a strong informational confrontation could be more understandable, more clearly conveyed and to voice more truth about the situation emerged in Azerbaijan occupied territories," Gusman said.

He further added that integer younger generation has already grown up after the war, so it is very important that a fair demand for the release of the occupied territories was clearly conveyed to the global community.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

The bloody war left 700,000 civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh without homes.

They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijanis who had displaced from their homes as result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents and wagons in very difficult conditions.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.