YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan’s map is placed in all of the country’s state-run facilities. This is the character of a society that has—or is having—a complex, head of Armenia’s delegation at Euronest and opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party’s National Assembly (NA) Faction leader Vahan Hovhannisyan said during a press conference on Thursday.     

“Everywhere there are huge maps, which include Karabakh. That is, the [Azerbaijani] authorities are trying to impose upon their people the idea of “Greater Azerbaijan;” they constantly remind what the people wish to forget,” Hovhannisyan noted and added: “When you speak with the [ordinary] Azerbaijanis, you sense that they do not need [it].”    

In her turn, the Armenian delegation member and ARF MP Lilit Galstyan said being on location and sensing it all is altogether something else.

“[Azerbaijani president Ilham] Aliyev’s rhetoric and the existing reality are altogether different. Unlike Aliyev, they continually favor a peaceful dialogue, understanding, [and] compromise. They favor mutually beneficial solutions; and this is said by Azerbaijani MPs,” Galstyan maintained.