Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry "surprised" by the position of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Baku / 10/17/18 / Turan: The press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry expressed "surprise" by the expression "all parties to the conflict" used by the Russian Foreign Ministry in assessing the recent visit of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and other Russian leaders to Nagorno-Karabakh.
The commentary of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to the Turan agency said that, as co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the Russian Foreign Ministry well knows that according to the OSCE final document of 1992 - the Final Statement of the Helsinki Council of Ministers - Armenia and Azerbaijan were recognized as parties to the conflict.
At present, negotiations within the Minsk Group are also being conducted in this format.
"We believe that the reaction of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation to this provocative and not conducive to the peaceful settlement of the conflict, the visit of the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma Svetlana Zhurova, is not effective," the commentary noted.
A group of Russian women last week visited Nagorno-Karabakh at the invitation of the wife of Armenian Prime Minister Anna Hakobyan. The visit was announced as peacekeeping, however, provoked protests from official Baku. However, the organizers ignored the opinion of Azerbaijan, not to visit the occupied territories without the consent of Baku. Therefore, the participants of the trip were included in the "black list" and they were denied entry to Azerbaijan. -02D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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