{"id":23359,"date":"2020-10-02T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/nagorno-karabakh-belongs-to-azerbaijan"},"modified":"2020-10-02T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:16:45","slug":"nagorno-karabakh-belongs-to-azerbaijan-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23359","title":{"rendered":"Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s ambassader to the UK, <strong>Tahir Taghizade<\/strong>, responds to the recent outbreak of hostilities in the region<\/p>\n<p>Regarding your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/27\/armenia-martial-law-clashes-azerbaijan\" title=\"\">At least 16 dead in Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes over disputed region<\/a>, 27 September), Nagorno-Karabakh is not a \u201cdisputed\u201d region. It is an internationally recognised territory of Azerbaijan occupied and ethnically cleansed by Armenia together with seven adjacent regions of Azerbaijan in flagrant violation of international law. Four UN security council resolutions, adopted in 1993 (822, 853, 874, 884) and demanding immediate withdrawal of the Armenian occupying forces from all occupied regions of Azerbaijan, remain unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>To consolidate its occupation policy, Armenia established an illegal regime, the so-called \u201cNagorno-Karabakh Republic\u201d (NKR), on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. This puppet regime has not been recognised by the international community including Armenia itself. Thus, there is no such thing as \u201cNagorno-Karabakh military staff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/nagorno-karabakh-belongs-to-azerbaijan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s ambassader to the UK, Tahir Taghizade, responds to the recent outbreak of hostilities in the regionRegarding your article (At least 16 dead in Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes over disputed region, 27 September), Nagorno-Karabakh is not a \u201cdispu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23372,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions\/23372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}