Azerbaijan continues its attempts to delude the international community, Armenia’s Foreign Minister said in Yerevan on August 30 during a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Crnadak.
Referring to the latest statement of Azerbaijan’s FM who said his country ‘is ready for substantive negotiations over Karabakh based on the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs,’ Edward Nalbandian said, “It means they are ready for serious and comprehensive talks? Do they mean to say that all meetings held in the past ten years, including over 20 meetings on the presidential level and another 40 on the ministerial level, have been meaningless? Is this what Azerbaijan wants to say?”
The Armenian FM stressed that if Azerbaijan really accepts the proposals of the Co-Chairs and is ready to discuss the details based on those proposals, then the country should confirm and even prove in practice that it is for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict based on the principles proposed by the Co-Chairs. “We have repeatedly reminded about those three principles – principle of non-use of force or threat, principles of equality of rights and the self-determination of peoples. Azerbaijan actually rejects and even refuses to join the international documents that refer to or mention these three principles,” Mr. Nalbandian stressed.
The Armenian FM says Azerbaijan has not changed its strategy. “Azerbaijan is trying to put a good face on a bad game, but it does not work. Armenia will continue to make efforts to resolve the conflict in a peaceful way. Azerbaijan can join, if it wishes,” Mr. Nalbandian added.