Baku urges Armenian minister to stop alleged anti-Azerbaijan pleas

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

Particular mechanisms to force Armenia to peace, including the imposition of sanctions should be developed in view of Armenia's refusal to adhere to peaceful efforts, Azerbaijan’s official said.

In comments on Armenian minister's alleged accusations against Azerbaijan, Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hikmet Hajiyev noted that the UN Security Council resolutions called on an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Armenian forces from the occupied territories, thus, proving Yerevan's occupation policy.

Being on an official visit in Moscow, Armenian Foreign Minister, Edward Nalbandyan seized the opportunity to blame Baku for its alleged rejection of the OSCE Minsk Group mediators' endeavors.

"I’d like to remind Nalbandyan that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs' approach towards the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict pursues the Budapest document under the intermediaries' official mandate, dated March 23, 1995," Hajiyev said, adding "the document is based on the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act and the UN Security Council resolutions."

Nalbandyan persistently claims that Yerevan’s official stance conforms to that of the international community and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs. Such hypocrisy gave Hajiyev the opportunity to call on the Armenian authorities to justify their aforementioned position and pull their troops out of the occupied Azerbaijani territories and to come to terms with the Great Peace Agreement.

“A question arises here - why Armenia refuses to team up under the Great Peace Agreement and ignores the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ high-level calls? While in Moscow, Nalbandyan once again brought his government's hypocritical and fallacious policy on the conflict's settlement to the limelight," Hajiyev said.

Hajiyev believes that in order to move toward peace and regional security, sanctions should be imposed on Armenia as an incentive to make Yerevan yield before international law. Since Armenia continues to defy calls from the UNSC to abide by its resolutions, repercussions should be set in place, especially since Yerevan has pursued its policy of aggression against Azerbaijan.

Engaged in a propaganda campaign against Baku, Nalbandyan has taken into the habit of baselessly slamming Azerbaijan whenever possible, using official visits to foreign countries to spit his venom.

What the Armenian minister seems to forget is that it is Armenia's aggressive anti-Azerbaijan policy which to this day supports to maintain troops in Azerbaijani territories for over a period of twenty years.

Baku's diligence in view of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is well seen in the international arena, as a well-known Russian political expert said the Azerbaijani leadership has endeavor to achieve a breakthrough in the conflict's resolution while Armenia has done nothing but pout.

Azerbaijan's internationally recognized Nagorno-Karabakh territory was turned into a battlefield and zone of aggravated tensions after Armenia sent its troops to occupy Azerbaijan's lands in the early 1990s. As a result, 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory stands under military occupation of Armenia.

For the past two decades, and despite calls from the international community, Armenia has refused to withdraw its troops and retreat within its national borders.