By Sara Rajabova

Bahrain opposes any illegal action in occupied Azerbaijani territories

The Kingdom of Bahrain once more declared that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan should be respected.

Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement of protest on the so-called municipal elections held in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenia-occupied region of Azerbaijan.

The so-called ‘elections’ to the ‘self-governing bodies’ of the puppet separatist regime that installed by Armenia in Azerbaijan’s occupied territories were held on September 13.

No illegal action should be held in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, according to the ministry’s statement.

The statement stresses the necessity for soonest peaceful settlement of the conflict.

Azerbaijan condemned the so-called ‘elections’, describing it as an open violation of international law, stating that it does not have any legal weight.

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.

Following the invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia established a separatist regime in the occupied territories and strives for recognition of the puppet regime from the international community.

Long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian, and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on the Armenian withdrawal from Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

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