ArmInfo.The Armenian Foreign Ministry considers the last curiosity with the participation of the Azerbaijani media at a briefing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia another attempt of provocation, which was suppressed by the Russian side.
For example, Spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan, on June 5, during a briefing, touching on the curiosity that occurred during the briefing of the Russian Foreign Ministry's representative Artem Kozhin and the distortion of his response to the Karabakh conflict by the Azerbaijani media, in particular, said: "As for another attempt to provoke the Azerbaijani media on the Russian Foreign Ministry's site, this is not news.This kind of attempt was during the years when Maria Zakharova, Lukashevich before her, had been giving briefings to Nesterenko. There was another attempt at provocation, which was suppressed by our Russian colleagues. "
To note, according to the transcript of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Artem Kozhin at a June 1 briefing on the Azerbaijani journalist's question about the fact that in one of his recent interviews the Armenian Prime Minister stated that negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement are impossible without participation "an illegal regime established in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan." To the extent that such statements complicate the settlement process and prevent the parties from finding a common language, in particular, stated: "Your loud statements that do not fit into the tracks laid, in particular, by the OSCE, probably seem unconstructive." Meanwhile, official Baku accused the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of distorting Kozhin's words on the Karabakh settlement and condemned these actions.