Baku Has Not Yet Responded to Pashinyan�s Attack

Baku / 26.09.19 / Turan: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of aggression, anti-Armenian phobia and a thirst for revenge. He stated this on September 25, speaking at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

"From the very first day I took office, I made a statement saying that any solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be acceptable to the peoples of Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan," he said, expecting a "similar" statement from Azerbaijan.

However, the top leadership of Azerbaijan wants a solution acceptable only for them.

"This means that the Azerbaijani authorities do not intend to resolve this conflict. Instead, they want to defeat the people of Nagorno-Karabakh and do not want to compromise," he said.

Azerbaijan"s goal is revenge for failed acts of aggression against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in 1990 and 2016. It is for this reason that they are fueling anti-Armenian sentiments, spending huge resources on weapons, and they have turned Armenian-phobia into official politics, Pashinyan said.

"In fact, our opponents want to return Nagorno-Karabakh in the status in which it was in Soviet times. But these efforts are futile, since the people of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region in the era of the USSR proclaimed their independence and exercised their right to self-determination, having left the USSR. Azerbaijan did the same. And such a position of Azerbaijan is equivalent to the idea of ​​resuscitation of the Soviet Union.

The Azerbaijani government presents the Karabakh conflict as a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We completely disagree with this interpretation of the conflict. This is not a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This dispute is not about territorial claims. We are talking about people, about men and women, about their right to live in their homeland, to live the way their ancestors lived for centuries. Unfortunately, the Azerbaijani authorities do not want to talk with these people, because they are only interested in the territories, not the people. More precisely, territories without people," said Pashinyan.

Nikol Pashinyan called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to accept his formula and create conditions for progress in a peaceful settlement.

"Any solution to the conflict should be acceptable to the peoples of Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, and all parties should work together to implement this formula," Pashinyan said.

Official Baku has not yet responded to these statements by the Prime Minister of Armenia. -02D-