The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan made an official statement to support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
“The Republic of Uzbekistan decisively supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the friendly Azerbaijan Republic, condemns any intervention in its internal affairs and does not recognize the so -called presidential elections in Karabakh, held on September 9, 2023,” the statement of the Uzbek foreign policy.
Earlier, on August 9, the Armenian forces organized the so -called “elections” in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
In turn, Baku called on the international community to condemn the so -called “elections” in Karabakh.
The department emphasized that the so -called “presidential elections” of the separatist regime created in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are a gross violation of the constitution, laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, norms and principles of international law.
The Foreign Ministry indicated that only the constitution and laws of the republic are the legitimate basis for the expression of political will through elections in Azerbaijan.
“The so -called separatist regime created in the Azerbaijani territories is the result of the policy of aggression and ethnic purge, which lasted almost 30 years. The steps taken by this regime created in the sovereign territories of Azerbaijan and seek to continue their existence thanks to military, political, financial and other support of Armenia, have no legal force.
The indicated step, being another element of the provocative and dangerous activities of Armenia, which has especially aggravated recently, is a serious blow to the normalization of the normalization of ethnic Armenian residents in the constitutional framework of the Azerbaijan Republic, ”the foreign policy of the foreign policy said .
The so -called “election” in Karabakh also made the Foreign Ministry of Turkey.