ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS TO ARAZ AZIMOV

ArmInfo
2009-11-19 20:04:00

ArmInfo. It has become a rule that before the meetings of the
presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan the Azeri authorities appear with
statements aimed at preventing expectations of possible progress,
Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan said while
commenting on the statement of his Azeri counterpart Araz Azimov.

"Based on his very rough knowledge of the norms of the international
law, Mr.Azimov means to say that the ethnic cleansing and the
large-scale aggression committed by Azerbaijan against the
self-determined people of Nagorno-Karabakh, the recruitment of
terrorist organizations in the war against NKR, the numerous human
casualties, the huge material damage and the futile attempts of the
Azeri authorities to shift their responsibility onto the Armenian
side comply with the international law."

"As long as Azeri officials continue their bellicose rhetoric,
propaganda fomenting national enmity and non-constructive statements
grossly contradicting the international law and refuse to realize
that it is for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh rather than the Azeri
authorities to determine the status of NKR, it is obvious that they
negotiate not for achieving progress but for just pushing forward
their groundless propaganda."

To recall, A.Azimov said today that "Azerbaijan leaves a place for
compromises, we are now in the middle of the bridge and expecting
Armenia to also pass its part of the way". Turning to the boring
to death territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the deputy minister
of Azerbaijan blamed Armenia for the fact that the latter takes no
practical steps. In addition, Azimov said that "Nagorno-Karabakh and
7 occupied regions are an integral part of Azerbaijan and this is
not a subject for discussion".