ArmInfo.The Artsakh Foreign Ministry reacted to the attacks of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev towards Yerevan and Stepanakert during a speech at the opening of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly. ArmInfo was informed about this by the press service of the NKR Foreign Ministry.
"The President of Azerbaijan, speaking in video format at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, once again reproduced the repeatedly refuted conjectures of the Azerbaijani side regarding the Azerbaijan- Karabakh conflict. at the Absheron field.
The statements of the President of Azerbaijan regarding the process of the settlement of the Azerbaijan- Karabakh conflict, voiced during the interview, demonstrate the degree of confusion of the Azerbaijani authorities in the conditions when the long-standing strategy of Baku, based on blackmail and threats, has proved its failure and has completely exhausted itself, " - are convinced of Stepanakert.
At the same time, the Artsakh Foreign Ministry stated that the long-term practice of the Azerbaijani authorities in distorting the essence of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict, preventing the restoration of full- format negotiations, biased interpretation of international law in order to justify their territorial claims against the Republic of Artsakh and the Republic of Armenia and ascribing to themselves the imaginary right to unleash a new aggression brought the conflict settlement process into the situation in which it is now, without bringing any additional political dividends to official Baku.
"The policy announced by the President of Azerbaijan to isolate Armenia and Artsakh and impede the economic growth of the two Armenian states, as well as attempts to exploit the religious theme in the context of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict, turned out to be just as ineffective.
It is obvious that, having lost its main tool, which boiled down to striving to achieve unilateral concessions through threats and forceful pressure, official Baku found itself outside its comfort zone and is trying to return to its usual situation, increasing the intensity of militant rhetoric directed against not only the Armenian parties. but also the settlement process as a whole, "the NKR MFA noted.
At the same time, the Foreign Ministry added that if the Baku authorities are really interested in achieving long-term peace in the region, they should abandon the policy of military blackmail and threats, recognize the fact that the people of Artsakh have realized the right to self-determination and sit down at the negotiating table in order to find solutions to the issue. elimination of the consequences of the armed conflict unleashed by Azerbaijan itself.
Note that the President of Azerbaijan on September 19, in a conversation with representatives of the leading Azerbaijani media, attacked Yerevan with criticism. Aliyev accused Yerevan of stalling the negotiation process on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "The Prime Minister of Armenia sets before us 7 conditions. First, who are you to speak with us in the language of conditions. If we want to speak with him in the language of conditions, then his political life will not be long. I said that we reject these absurd conditions. But we have one condition: they must completely and unconditionally leave our lands, as reflected in the resolutions of the UN Security Council, "Aliyev Jr. said. The Azerbaijani leader did not stop there, "accusing Armenia of initiating a provocation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in July this year." However, he did not stop there, adding that a high-ranking official of one of the Minsk Group co-chairing countries had already openly announced this.
"I said then, and I say today: we have no military targets on the territory of Armenia, if we wanted to, we could go to the territory of Armenia, we had all the military capabilities for this. But we did not do it, because in our military - there is no political concept of this, if a serious provocation is not committed against us. If it is done, then there will be no restrictions for us, let everyone know this. No restrictions. If they ignore international law, then why should we observe it, we too we will ignore it, but it will all end badly for them, "he summed up.