BAKU. Oct 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Azeri President Heydar Aliyev has warned that if the OSCE Minsk Group does not take a principled stand on the Karabakh conflict then Azerbaijan will have to use force to free the land it believes Armenia has occupied.
During his meeting with Adrian Severin, president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, on Wednesday the Azeri president accused Yerevan of having adopted "a non-constructive position" and said that the OSCE "is shutting its eyes to it."
"Everything is destroyed and ravaged on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, and the OSCE is shutting its eyes to it," Aliyev said.
The co-chairmen of the Minsk Group say they will accept any agreement to which the conflicting parties come. "Armenia is demanding that Nagorny Karabakh, which is the territory of Azerbaijan, be either independent or become part of Armenia. We cannot agree to it. It is necessary that both the OSCE and the Minsk Group not agree to this," the Azeri president said.
"What agreement can we reach if Armenia, which has occupied our land, does not want to vacate it? Either the OSCE Minsk Group should take a principled stand on this matter or we should free our land using military force," Aliyev said.