Baku doesn’t want to listen to the international community, Nalbandian says

Afterwards, the Armenian FM met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov at the presence of the mediators.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry press service reports this without disclosing any other details of Nalbandian-Mammadyarov meeting.

The press release reads:

“To divert attention from the outrageous human rights situation in Azerbaijan and the growing criticism of the international community in towards this, Baku escalates the situation on the Line of Contact with Nagorno-Karabakh and the border with Armenia with considerable unforeseen negative consequences. With this provocations Baku demonstrates its disregard both to the human life and to its own commitments”.

Touching upon the Co-Chairs' September 25 statement, Edward Nalbandian said:

“It is Azerbaijan that continuously rejects the proposals on confidence building measures and the initiatives aimed at the stabilisation of the situation and therefore, it is obvious to whom the messages of the statement are addressed. But it leads to an impression that Baku deliberately doesn’t pay attention to what the international community calls upon through the mediator states. They accuse everyone and pretend they want settlement but they do the opposite in reality''.

The Armenian FM attached importance to the reaffirmation by the Co-chairs of the proposal on the creation of an investigative mechanism on the ceasefire violations to which Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have expressed their agreement on numerous occasions. It would allow determining with more certainty the side responsible for the ceasefire violations and incidents.

 “Azerbaijan refuses this, because it wants to have its hands free, and without scrutiny of international scrutiny to continue its provocations on the Line of Contact and borders.
Baku refuses not only the initiatives of the Co-chairs on confidence building measures and rejects the proposals of the mediators on the conflict resolution, which have been made public in five statements of the Heads of the Minsk Group Co-chair countries, but also casts aside any reference to them, which once again was vividly demonstrated during the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga”, the Minister stressed.

The Co-chairs expressed their deep concern about the rise of tension of the situation and stressed that the further escalation is unacceptable.