Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov announced that Baku hopes real progress can be achieved on resolving some of the outstanding issues facing the region-in particular, achieving lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the annual ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Dublin.
According to Mammadyarov, Azerbaijan is economically prosperous due to an oil and gas boom, but its efforts to build a modern country are handicapped by security issues.
“The broader Caspian region is plagued with tension, which could quickly escalate from political problems between neighbors to open conflict. The most irritating and damaging issue for my country is with neighboring Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh province” said MAmedyarov, adding “This province belongs to Azerbaijan”.
