Artsakh’s State Minister Artak Beglaryan has responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s fake claims at the April 12 meeting of his cabinet.

“President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev made new statements and fake claims over Artsakh at the government meeting on April 12.

1. Despite of Aliyev’s statement, the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict has not been settled, and it should be done with international support primarily through unconditional and unlimited realization of right to self-determination of the Artsakh people.

2. In addition to sufficient legal and historical basis, the genocidal policy against Armenians and systemic policy of Armenophobia by Azerbaijan especially in the recent 34 years are additional reasons to say that Artsakh cannot be part of Azerbaijan with any status.

3. The armed forces of Artsakh have never opened fire at the Khachen reservoir and Akna (Aghdam) from Parukh and Karaglukh, and if Aliyev has contrary evidence, he can publish it. Instead, prior to the Parukh occupation, the Azerbaijani side were carrying out provocations, firing mortars at civilian communities.

4. It is not a “good will” to deliberately explode the gas pipeline and then restore it with delays,” Beglaryan said in a statement on Thursday.