Interfax: Russia & CIS General Newswire September 9, 2018 Sunday 6:05 PM MSK Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry criticizes Armenian PM's statement on Karabakh BAKU. Sept 9 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's latest statements are derailing OSCE Minsk Group mediators' efforts seeking settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani crisis, spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Khikmet Gajiyev said. "Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement in Moscow that Azerbaijan's Nagorno Karabakh Region is supposedly part of Armenia is disregarding the norms and principles of international law, relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and is wrecking the negotiating process being maintained with OSCE Minsk Group's mediation," the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said. "The Armenian leadership is intentionally or unknowingly issuing this kind of statements, which are fuelling the situation, in the capital of a co-chairing country of the OSCE Minsk Group ahead of a meeting at the ministerial level in New York involving the mediators. This statement also coincided in time with the OSCE secretary general's visit in Azerbaijan scheduled to take place next week," he said. "I would like to emphasize once again that this sort of statements hold Armenia and its leadership fully accountable for the possible escalation of the situation," the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The unrecognized Nagorno Karabakh Republic should become part of Armenia, Pashinyan said on Saturday. "As to our plans for the future, I have already said that I am contemplating Artsakh [the Armenian name of Nagorno Karabakh] as part of Armenia. This path can include several steps, but our idea about that is definite. There can be no doubts about that," Pashinyan said at a meeting with Armenian businesspeople in Moscow on Saturday. Speaking of possible concessions in Karabakh settlement, the Armenian prime minister said that this depends on Azerbaijan's willingness to make concessions. sb