BAKU. April 15 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan's president complained on Monday that the first quarter of this year had brought no progress toward a resolution of the country's conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Unfortunately, there has been no progress in the first quarter of this year. The somewhat optimistic opinions of the mediators, which they expressed at the end of last year, haven't been vindicated," Ilham Aliyev told a government conference.
He called for international sanctions against Armenia.
"Today we can again witness Armenia to be simply pursuing a procrastination policy, it wants to preserve the neither war nor peace situation, and the international mediators unfortunately aren't putting any serious pressure on it either. In fact, Armenia should long have been under international sanctions because 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan has for 20 years been under Armenian occupation, which is qualified as such by the international community," Aliyev said.