Interfax - Russia & CIS Military Newswire Tuesday 6:10 PM MSK Yerevan sees Aliyev's statements before Armenia-Azerbaijan Karabakh summit as provocative YEREVAN. Oct 10 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan believes the Azerbaijani leadership regularly resorts to provocative acts in the run-up to top-level meetings to address the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian presidential press secretary Vladimir Akopyan said. "The president of Armenia believes that everyone perfectly knows that the Azerbaijani leadership resorts to provocative acts before top-level meetings. The latest statement was of the same kind, the only distinction being that this act of provocation was committed in the center of Baku rather than on the border with Armenia or the line of contact with Artsakh [the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic]," Akopyan said in an interview with the Armenian news agency News.am. Several days before a meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan initiated by the OSCE Minsk Group countries, Azerbaijan "is trying to create the illusion that it acts from the dictating position at the negotiations." "Baku's calculus is very primitive - to avoid responsibility for failing to implement agreements reached at previous summits, primarily to the people of Azerbaijan," Akopyan said. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had said at an expanded government meeting on Monday that the negotiating process would be resumed without preconditions. Aliyev also accused Armenia of torpedoing negotiations on settling the conflict. He said Armenia had tried to disrupt the talks in any way it could by inventing all kinds of pretexts and putting forward various preconditions. "Our and Baku's perceptions of disgrace are strikingly different," Akopyan said. "Perhaps Azerbaijan doesn't know it, but abandoning agreements reached earlier has been regarded as disgraceful in our region for ages. It's a disgrace when something said in the international arena in the presence of other foreign leaders and something said at home do not match. It's a disgrace when you try to deceive the international community and your own people," Akopyan said. Armenia's agreement to hold negotiations does not mean that it has changed its position on Nagorno-Karabakh or on the need to implement the agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg, he said. va mc kl