ArmInfo.The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova sharply condemned the Azeri journalist and accused him of provocations pursuing certain goals.
In the course of the traditional briefing on June 15, Zakharova, at the request of the Azeri journalist, "to correct the error in the transcript on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry from the previous briefing with the participation of Artem Kozhin, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's DIP", in particular, said: "Tell me, only on this issue do you have such a pedantic approach? You know how many times, unfortunately, I personally witnessed how my words and words of my colleagues are distorted by you (Trend agency - ed.). Somehow I do not remember such a pedantic approach, ever! For almost three years I have repeatedly saw, that situation when the questions sound like political statements, and you know about it! And this is done, unfortunately, as it seems to me, not to contribute to a very difficult situation solution, but maybe to some other goals."
At the same time, appealing to all, Zakharova stressed that the Russian Foreign Ministry is always ready to give factual and evaluation information. "But I do not think that this is right and I will always insist on that it is necessary and possible to ask questions that in their essence have some kind of provocative sounding, especially on the most complicated issues on which the peoples of the two countries are suffering, in particular Armenia and Azerbaijan," the Russian diplomat said.
She noted that Trend agency, for the past two weeks, never addressed this issue. According to her, if this issue really worried the agency and the journalist himself, they would call and solve this issue, rather than wait for today's briefing to again raise it in the public space. "So, there is some kind of desire to provoke something, for what it's done, our country is doing its utmost to resolve the problems of Karabakh, you know why, because we, firstly, want the two people finally resolved this bloody problem, secondly, because we want to develop relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan, and we want Yerevan and Baku to develop relations between themselves, and it seems to me that our task with you, the work is to bring the settlement closer, not even far", said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman.
At the same time, she proposed to work constructively and use the opportunity of questions and answers not for provocative purposes, but to solve the main task - the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.