armenpress: UZBEK PRESIDENT CALLS ON ARMENIA TO PULL OUT ITS TROOPS FROM KARABAGH

TASHKENT, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS: Uzbek president Islam Karimov announced today that Nagorno Karabagh is an integral part of Azerbaijan and called on Armenia to pull out its troops from the occupied regions without preconditions. A Baku-based ATV company reported that after concluding talks with the visiting president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, Karimov said Mikhail Gorbachev did nothing to stop the conflict and must be held responsible for the bloodshed between the two nations.
Karimov also said that the package resolution is hopeless and that the conflict must be resolved step by step to “restore the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” and only then to decide the status of Karabagh.