ArmInfo.The Armenian Foreign Ministry responded to the accusations of Azerbaijan in the murder of an officer of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and in an attempt to torpedo the negotiation process.
Thus, the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Anna Naghdalyan, responding to these accusations of Baku, in particular, stated: "The proposal to create the proper atmosphere for the negotiations came from Armenia. The Armenian side cannot reject what it proposed itself. The formation of this atmosphere was the agreements reached in Dushanbe, which are mainly respected. Armenia and Artsakh are committed to their obligations."
She also stated that the Artsakh Defense Army had resolutely denied the accusations of the Azerbaijani side in the murder of a soldier of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan.
It would be more correct for Azerbaijan, Naghdalyan is convinced that before disintegrating accusations against the Armenian side, to conduct an internal investigation into the alleged incident to find out the real reasons.
At the same time, she stressed that if there were mechanisms for investigating incidents, it would have been impossible to spread misinformation about violations of the truce regime. "It is noteworthy that due to the rejection of these proposals by the Azerbaijani side, the trust mechanisms have not yet been implemented. In this situation, we reiterate the need to implement the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements of 2016, including strengthening the ceasefire and introducing trust mechanisms. It is also noteworthy that Baku spreads information about the killing of an Azerbaijani soldier during his stay in the region of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. This is nothing more than an attempt to torpedo a negotiation meeting process and disruption of the upcoming meeting (Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan - Ed.) ", Naghdalyan expressed her conviction, adding that Baku, by spreading this kind of false information, is trying to shift the blame for the destructive position in the negotiation process to other parties - Armenia and Artsakh.
A spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry is convinced that this also demonstrates how Baku is ready to respond to the efforts of the mediators to resolve the conflict, and how ready it is to advance the negotiations. Naghdalyan once again emphasized Armenia's commitment to positively incorporating into the peace process, and continuing efforts to create the necessary atmosphere for negotiations. Touching on the statements of Baku on tolerance of Azerbaijan to the Armenians living in this country, Naghdalyan expressed surprise that the representative of the state speaks of Armenians living on the territory of the country, where not only Armenians are allowed to enter, but representatives of other states on whose T-shirts are present the name of a footballer of Armenian origin . "The present intolerance in Azerbaijan is a consequence of the impunity of mass pogroms of the Armenian population in Sumgayit, Baku and other localities, impunity for sowing Armenian-Armenian policies, culminating in the glorification of Ramil Safarov and the April 2016 aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh, which was accompanied by barbaric acts. As for the comments related to the internal processes in Armenia, we do not waste time explaining the elementary processes taking place in the demo regarded as competitive companies ", - summed Naghdalyan.
The day before, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan accused the Artsakh Army of the murder of an Azerbaijani soldier. The Artsakh Defense Forces categorically denied these allegations. Today it also became known that the deceased serviceman of the Azerbaijani army, Agil Akif oglu Omarov, was the commander of a battalion in the rank of major.