PanARMENIAN.Net - A controversy ensued between Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov during an online meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government on Friday, November 12.

In the final minutes of the meeting, Asadaov asked for an opportunity to respond to Grigoryan's speech, Sputnik Armenia reports.

Asadov repeated the traditional theses of Baku, calling the Armenian servicemen still being held in Azerbaijan "saboteurs". Asadov also said "there is no Nagorno-Karabakh," but only "the Karabakh economic region of Azerbaijan."

Grigoryan then asked for the floor and noted that Armenia, unlike Azerbaijan, has fully complied with and is fulfilling the provisions of the trilateral statements of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021.

He called on Azerbaijan to abandon its aggressive rhetoric, reiterating that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is possible exclusively by peaceful means.