YEREVAN. – Starting directs talks with the leadership of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will be of sign of official Baku’s readiness to achieve results in the negotiation process, Armenia’s Deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan told Novosti-Armenia News Agency commenting on Azerbaijan’s statement with respect to its readiness to continue with the Karabakh peace talks.   

“As long as Baku has illusions that the essence of the settlement of the Karabakh problem is the elimination of the consequences of the aggression which itself incited, continues its racist anti-Armenian hysteria, [and] obstructs the mediators’ efforts to create a climate of trust between the conflicting parties, such statements are nothing but Azerbaijan’s yet another uncouth attempt at covering up its true intentions toward the preservation of the status quo,” Kocharyan noted.