ArmInfo. Those who appeal to the documents should first get acquainted with them, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tigran Balayan told ArmInfo correspondent, referring to the statement of his Azerbaijani counterpart Hikmet Hajiyev that allegedly in the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements of 2016 "agreed withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from Artsakh."
In this regard, Balayan advised Hajiyev to read the statement of the foreign ministers of the Vienna Summit on May 16, 2016 once again. "It is not superfluous to recall that for the last 15 years Azerbaijan has been playing the same spoiled record," Balayan said.
The statement of the foreign ministers of the Vienna summit of 2016 says in part: "The co-chairs insisted on the necessity of observing the cease-fire agreements of 1994 and 1995. The Presidents confirmed their commitment to a ceasefire and a peaceful solution to the conflict agreed to the completion in the shortest possible time of work on the OSCE mechanism for investigating incidents, and the Presidents also agreed to the expansion of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office. "
Today the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Hikmet Hajiyev, in particular, said that in the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements of 2016 through intensive negotiations the "withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from Artsakh" was agreed. Hajiyev said that along with the investigation of the incidents it was supposed to solve technical problems: "The reality is this: I recommend correctly reading and understanding the documents." It's time to replace the record, which was once put on the gramophone by Nalbandian."