“If Armenia demonstrates constructiveness, Azerbaijan-Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be solved. Our position is one-sided and international community supports it: Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity should be restored, invaders must withdraw from our lands and the people suffered from ethnic cleansing should be brought back to their lands,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated.

Friday’s session was broadcast live on Iraqi television.

Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi officials are investigating how an attacker penetrated the heavy security around Baghdad’s green zone and detonated a bomb inside a cafeteria in the parliament building.

The head of Turkey’s powerful military has said Ankara should launch a military operation in northern Iraq to target Kurdish guerrillas based there.

Gen Yasar Buyukanit, chief of Turkey’s general staff, urged the government to approve a cross-border incursion.