The Azerbaijani haqqin.az website has disseminated information that Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has confirmed the existence of the document on Nagorno-Karabakh. He had announced it during the joint press conference with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In particular, he had noted that there is a document that is worked out, “If we follow in this direction, we can achieve peace.” Aravot.am asked Armenia’s Foreign Minister’s Spokesperson Tigran Balayan to comment on this statement. “The Foreign Minister had addressed this issue in details yesterday, and one of the mediator countries had described such qualifications as a perversion. I do not see the need for more commenting,” – he said.
Note that during the press conference on Wednesday, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has said that they have not and will never discuss the option of Nagorno-Karabakh’s autonomous oblast be a part of Azerbaijan. The people of Karabakh should determine its fate independently, it is also enshrined by the co-chairs, “Whom to believe: Azerbaijan or the international community?”
Ami CHICHAKYAN
