YEREVAN.- Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said Azerbaijani territorial claims to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is a result of an agony of an inherited authoritarian regime.

“Undisguised territorial claim to Armenia, having a history of at least three thousand centuries, from a state which first appeared on the world map hundred years ago, is a result of an agony of Azerbaijan’s hereditary authoritarian regime,” he told Interfax agency commenting on Azerbaijani leader’s recent statements.

Blatant lie threatens regional security and especially the people of Azerbaijan, Kocharyan added.

He is confident that such statements can not help Azerbaijani government to avoid responsibility for the consequences of aggression they unleashed against self-determined Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.