Armenian Foreign Minister: Ilham Aliyev did not find time to visit  Brussels to meet with Nikol Pashinyan

ArmInfo. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev did not find time to visit Brussels to meet with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated on October 25 during a briefing  following negotiations with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly in Yerevan, touching on the reasons for the cancellation of the meeting of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels at the end of this month.

"You ask who didn't find the time, obviously, the President of  Azerbaijan. We are still ready to participate in that meeting. I hope  that the problem was indeed pertaining to specific timeframes and  soon it will be possible to agree on new timeframes of a new  meeting," he said again emphasizing that the Republic of Armenia is  ready to participate in that meeting and remains committed to the  peace agenda.

At the same time, the Minister also touched upon the Granada meeting  and the document signed there by the Prime Minister of the Republic  of Armenia, and drew attention to the fact that there was essentially  nothing new in the statement adopted there. "They reaffirmed the same  principles, perhaps in a little more detail, that were voiced earlier  by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, after the  tripartite meeting held on July 15.

And neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan contradicted them. These are the  same principles, and we continue to believe that they should form the  basis of a peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku," Mirzoyan noted.   At the same time, the Armenian minister said that on October 23 in  Tehran, on the sidelines of the regional 3+3 platform, he had an  informal conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun  Bayramov, and added that Armenia is ready to move quickly on the  agenda of the peace process, including regarding the signing of a  peace treaty.

Mirzoyan believes that in the near future it will become clear how  the process will develop further.  When asked by the journalist  whether he trusts Azerbaijan, Mirzoyan assured that there is no  question of trust in relations between states. "There is a document,  there are agreements. There will be a meeting, it will be clear how  we will move forward," he said, adding that there are no new dates  for a possible meeting yet.

Today, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the  crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar, announced that the meeting between  leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev,  scheduled for the end of October, through the mediation of  Presidentof the European Council, Charles Michel, will not take  place. Klaar reasoned it by lack of time.