No meeting with Azerbaijani side planned in near future, Armenian Foreign Ministry says
YEREVAN, April 15. / ARKA /. No meeting with the Azerbaijani side is planned in the near future, press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan said today in response to a question whether Armenian and Azerbaijani sides are expected to meet in the near future.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the conference "New Look at the South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation in the Post-Conflict Period", noted that Armenia was offered to sign a peace treaty, but there was no response from the Armenian side yet.
“Such a meeting is not planned. Moreover, the anti-Armenian position and behavior of the Azerbaijani leadership, to put it mildly, do not give grounds to expect constructiveness on the part of the Azerbaijani authorities in search of a way out of the situation resulting from the aggression unleashed against Artsakh,” Naghdalyan said.
She noted that the statements the President of Azerbaijan made at the opening of the "trophy park" in Baku on April 12 dedicated to the Artsakh war, as well as the organization of an exhibition with staged looting and manifestations of disrespectful attitude towards the memory of the dead Armenian soldiers, are a vivid proof of what she said.
All this, as well as the manipulation of the issue of prisoners of war by Azerbaijan, prove how far the Azerbaijani leadership is from its own declarative statements about the post-war situation, regional peace and reconciliation, she added.
Naghdalyan stated that the President of Azerbaijan continues to make contradictory statements: on the one hand, Azerbaijani leadership says that the conflict is resolved, on the other hand, at an event organized for an international audience, they talk about the signing of a peace agreement and settlement of some unresolved issues of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"In this regard, let us make one simple observation that for the signing of a peace treaty, first of all, a peace process is needed, which stopped after the use of force by Azerbaijan," the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry emphasized. -0-
