Azerbaijan: Baku Says Karabakh Status Referendum Must Include All of Azerbaijan

Baku would accept a proposal to define the status of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh enclave through a referendum, but only if the poll is held on the entire territory of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov announced on March 18, the APA news agency reported.

Nagorno-Karabakh, a region over which Baku lost control in 1994, is still recognized as part of Azerbaijan under international law.

There is little chance that Armenia, which acts as a protector of the largely ethnic Armenian region, would agree to Baku's proposal.