Baku reacts to Russian president aide`s words about Nagorno-Karabakh 

ArmInfo.  The comparison of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by the Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky has caused hysteria in  official Baku.

Earlier, Medinsky gave the example of Nagorno-Karabakh in the context  of the Ukrainian settlement.  According to him, which he expressed in  an interview with RT, if the conflict is stopped along the entire  front line, some kind of truce is concluded, this region will turn  into a huge Karabakh. "There was such a disputed region between  Armenia and Azerbaijan - Karabakh," the Russian presidential aide  said.

In this regard, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry issued a lengthy  statement in which it considered the comparison given by Medinsky to  be a "distortion of the facts." "It is surprising, but being an aide  to the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the Chairman  of the Interdepartmental Commission on Historical Education of  Russia, Medinsky does not know that Karabakh has never been a  disputed territory.  We would like to remind you that Karabakh is an  ancient and integral part of Azerbaijan. Russia itself has recognized  and continues to recognize Karabakh as part of the territory of  Azerbaijan," the statement of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan,  quoted by the Kommersant newspaper, reads.

Baku also expressed regret that Vladimir Medinsky compared the war in  Nagorno-Karabakh with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. "Such a  comparison is inappropriate, since Azerbaijan has never violated the  territorial integrity of any country," the Azerbaijani ministry  added, calling on the aide to the President of the Russian Federation  "to refrain from damaging interstate relations."

On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan, under the pretext of an  "anti-terrorist operation," committed another act of aggression  against Armenian Artsakh. This was preceded by a nearly 10-month  blockade of the unrecognized republic. Since the enemy aggression  that began in the fall of 2020, which in September 2023 ended with  the complete ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, over 150 thousand Artsakh  residents have lost their homeland and become refugees.