Existing conflicts impede peace and security in the OSCE area, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at the annual meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan.

The Foreign Minister noted that since the previous meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council last year in Vienna, there has been no significant progress in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

"The territories of Azerbaijan remain under occupation," said Mammadyarov, stressing that Armenia continues its constant attempts to change the demographic, cultural and physical situation in the occupied territories, illegally settling of Armenian population in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

“These steps of Armenia undermine confidence”, the Foreign Minister said.