He said no decision will be made, as he put it, "today, tomorrow or in 100 years allowing Nagorno-Karabakh to be removed from Azerbaijan."
He saluted Azerbaijani diplomats for defending Baku's position, and said the government's increasing military expenditures had helped enforce its message.
An uneasy cease-fire has held since 1994, the end of a six-year war over control of the mainly ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan that killed 30,000 people and displaced a million.
Aliyev is due to discuss the conflict with Kocharian in Rambouillet, France, on 10 and 11 February.
(AP)
Nagorno-Karabakh
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In February 1988, the local assembly in Stepanakert, the local capital of the Azerbaijani region of NAGORNO-KARABAKH, passed a resolution calling for unification of the predominantly ethnic-Armenian region with Armenia. There were reports of violence against local Azeris, followed by attacks against Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. In 1991-92, Azerbaijani forces occupied most of Nagorno-Karabakh, but the Armenians counterattacked and by 1993-94 had seized almost all of the region, as well as vast areas around it. About 600,000 Azeris were displaced and as many as 25,000 people were killed before a Russian-brokered cease-fire was imposed in May 1994.
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