PanARMENIAN.Net - President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has said that there has been a "verbal agreement" that the issue of status of Karabakh would not be raised.

Aliyev called on Armenia to stop raising the topic of the status of Karabakh, Interfaz.az reports.

"But unfortunately, we have been hearing statements from the Armenian government about the “status” of the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh”, which is absolutely counterproductive," Aliyev told the IX Global Baku Forum on Thursday, June 16.

Aliyev claimed that Nagorno-Karabakh doesn't exist and "therefore, any mention of status will only lead to new problems."

According to him, if Armenia calls into question the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, it thereby forces Baku to take similar steps in relation to its territory.

The Second Karabakh war lasted 44 days and ended when Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev signed a ceasefire statement on November 9, 2020. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities.