“Recent statement by the President of Azerbaijan speak of the difficult situation occurred in the country. The global oil price crash poses significant risks for the stability of the country and the ruling regime,” the Chairman of the Homeland Party Artur Vanetsyan said in an interview with Hraparak Daily.

Commenting on Aliyev’s Friday remarks, Vanetsyan noted that the Azerbaijani president tries to distort the history bot his and the Armenian people as well as the whole region in an attempt to divert the attention of own public from local issues.

“Aliyev’s assessments on the history preceding our independent statehood regrettably coincide with assessments of the acting leadership of Armenia which is the real danger for us. The intensity of Aliyev’s bellicose declarations has always been linked to oil prices,” Vanetsyan said, adding: “What refers to the newest history of Armenia, it has been a history of victories and establishing statehood despite all the gaps and mistakes. The occasional coinciding approaches of Pashinyan and Aliyev may not change the historical truth,” added the former Chief of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).

Vanetsyan next noted that anyone threatening Armenia should realize clearly that internal political differences will disappear in the face of external threats, and ‘the Armenian people will turn into an iron fist ready for new victories.’

He also called the attention of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to disrespectful statements by Aliyev about Armenia and its leadership ‘aimed at disrupting the peace process.’