YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan runs stubbornly a policy to remove Armenia from regional projects and isolate the country, expert Andrei Areshev told Armenian News-NEWS.am commenting on the Azerbaijani MP Asef Hajiyev’s recent statement that Baku will not cooperate with Yerevan.

“The Azerbaijani position has for many times been voiced on the highest level, including the President Ilham Aliyev. It is not news anymore,” the expert said.

Asked why the highest administration of Azerbaijan voices periodically controversial statements by claiming readiness to establish humanitarian contacts and at the same time rejecting any cooperation with Armenia, the expert said that it is due to the inactive reaction by the international community, experts, analysts, who give it an opportunity to act like that.

In order to balance the situation and establish equality in the South Caucasus, Armenia is better to promote more initiative in the formation of the regional agenda, Areshev believes. As the agency has earlier informed, the Azerbaijani MP Asef Hajiyev, who is in Armenian capital city, said on Wednesday that Azerbaijan is ready to cooperate with everyone except for Armenia, until Azerbaijani lands “are occupied.”

Azerbaijani delegation is in Armenia within the frameworks of the 39th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC).