ArmInfo. The meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should not be an end in itself, but should have content, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tigran Balayan stated at a press conference in Yerevan on September 26 when answering the question whether the issue of organizing the Aliyev-Pashinyan meeting will be discussed at today's meeting of the Armenian and Azeri FMs.
"If there is content, there must be agreements on the principles of settlement. We have many years bitter experience of reaching agreements and then Azerbaijan torpedoing them." Yes, Pashinyan stressed once again that all the agreements reached must be fulfilled. The matter concerns the agreements reached at summits after the April 2016 aggression, in particular, on introducing mechanisms of trust in the front line and expanding the office of the Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office, "Balayan said.
He reminded that Armenia has repeatedly stated that Azerbaijan is still torpedoing the implementation of these agreements. The representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry stressed that the principled position of Yerevan is that it is necessary to create conditions that will establish a favorable environment for the promotion of the peace process. He expressed his belief that these issues will be raised during the Mammadyarov-Mnatsakanyan meeting today in New York.
He also stressed that the Armenian side does not put forward preconditions for a meeting with Aliyev. "Pashinyan stated on several occasions that he was ready to meet and negotiate with the leadership of Azerbaijan on behalf of Armenia, but, as I said, the meeting should not be an end in itself and only a pretext for handshakes and joint photographs." The meeting should lead to concrete results, including implementation of previously reached agreements, "Balayan summed up.