SAUDI ARABIA TO RENDER MORE AID TO REFUGEES
Ambassador Elman Arasly informed the Saudi side on the hard consequences of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, negotiations between Azerbaijan President and heads of the world’s leading states and prestigious international organizations concerning peaceful resolution of the problem. He stressed that aggressor Armenia and has been occupying 20% of the Azerbaijani lands for over ten years, and holds non-constructive position in the peace process. As a result of the aggression, he said, more than one million Azerbaijani citizens have become refugees and IDPs and are still living under very hard conditions. The diplomat handed the Azerbaijani side’s request to increase the volume of aid rendered by the government and humanitarian organizations of Saudi Arabia to refugees and IDP to Mr. Abdulla Turki and Mr. Adnan Pasha.
The latter stated for their part that governed by the King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz instructions on providing necessary assistance to Azerbaijan in its fight for elimination of the Armenian aggression consequences, the government and donor organizations are ready to increase the volume of aid.