YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan cannot petition to the UN Security Council for cancelation of the 1994 ceasefire agreement, Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, told Tert.am news agency.

“The UN will not cancel the ceasefire agreement,” Kocharyan said. “The UN member states are supposed to respect international commitments. This is merely an attempt to get out of international commitments. The 1994 ceasefire agreement is not in Azerbaijan’s interests because it contains Nagorno-Karabakh’s signature, which implies that Azerbaijan at least recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as a conflicting party.”

According to a press release which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia had disseminated, Azerbaijan had sent a letter to the UN demanding the cancelation of the ceasefire agreement.

Asked about Azerbaijan’s possible intention to circulate a new draft agreement on ceasefire, which is the reason for Azerbaijan’s seeking to have the 1994 agreement canceled, the Armenian deputy FM said: “There is no other agreement. Azerbaijan is referring to a verbal agreement. But it is not an agreement [i.e. an agreement reached in Moscow following the Karabakh-Azerbaijan four-day war in early April]. It was nothing but an arrangement to observe the 1994 ceasefire agreement.”

Asked to comment on the views that Russia’s active policies are an attempt to cast a shadow on the OSCE Minsk Group activities, Shavarsh Kocharyan replied: “Yes, the [19]94 ceasefire agreement was signed through Russia’s mediation; that’s absolutely natural as Russia always perceives the region as its zone of influence.”