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By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty issue has been included into the NATO resolution.

Malahat Ibrahimgizi, an MP and member of the Azerbaijani delegation to NATO PA told Trend Agency that the article on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan has been added to the resolution on “NATO Reassurance and Support to Partners”, adopted at the 60th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, held in The Hague on November 24.

Ibrahimgizi said the Armenians tried to prevent the introduction of this article in the resolution. But despite their efforts, as a result of the arguments of the Azerbaijani side, this resolution was adopted.

She went on to add that the Armenians have also tried to add an article on "self-determination of minorities" to the resolution, but the Azerbaijani delegation was able to prevent this attempt.

The delegation said at the meeting that the Armenians have once realized self-determination, and the other delegations rejected this article, according to Ibrahimgizi.

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.

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.