Int'l legal norms taken as conflict solution

President Aliyev received the participants of the international conference "Legal frame for settlement of ethnic and political conflicts in Europe", underway in Baku, Monday.

Touching upon human rights and freedoms, President Aliyev underscored the necessity of getting closer to European values. The conference is very topical and vital for Azerbaijan, a country that has been suffering a conflict for quite many years, the President said.

Secretary of the Council of Europe Venice Commission Gianni Buciccio said on behalf of the meeting participants that the Commission, being a non-political authority, aspires to help resolve conflicts using the European experience.

The parties stressed that solution to any conflict should rest on international legal norms.

President Aliyev, speaking of the importance of fighting separatism, regretted that "such phenomena are not timely prevented, inciting conflicts".

On the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, the President said that international legal norms should be taken as a basement for solution. These norms entail the territorial integrity, sovereignty and inviolability of borders of Azerbaijan recognized by all the international organizations, he emphasized.*