YEREVAN. - Through the aggression unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan tried to solve the issue by military means.

Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said the aforementioned in an interview with the Public Television of Armenia.  

“I think Azerbaijan achieved neither minimum nor maximum of its goals. And now it will have to return to the bargaining table. And the talks require conditions: the efforts of the [OSCE Minsk Group] Co-Chairs are aimed at this,” the FM said.

In his words, the current aggression of Azerbaijan was preceded by a failure on the battlefield and then during talks. Consequently, Azerbaijan decided to once again try to achieve success through force.

“Opening the brackets, I’d like to note that the international community and the Co-Chairs speak of three principles: non-use of force or threat to use force, peoples’ right to self-determination and territorial integrity. Azerbaijan talks only about one principle. The Co-Chairs spoke of three principles during their visit to Yerevan by the end of last week. The Azerbaijani press saw only one principle,” Nalbandian said.  

Nalbandian noted that Azerbaijan has had a number of failures, for instance Baku’s ignoring of the five statements of the co-chairing countries, urgent departure of the Azerbaijani FM from the EU summit in Riga, the final document of which referred to the aforementioned five statements and the country’s unwillingness to listen to the calls on creating incident investigation mechanisms. The Armenian FM noted that indeed a lot of untargeted calls have been made, but together with them there have been those which specifically addressed Azerbaijan, but the latter wouldn’t listen to them either.

At the same time, Azerbaijan has repeatedly turned down the almost achieved agreements, as it was in Kazan. Finding itself in a situation, where it had noting to say during the talks, Azerbaijan refused to meet with the Co-Chairs - as it did in Washington - and didn’t conceal its aggressive intentions.  It periodically violated the ceasefire, and now it has stepped further. “It’s evident to everyone who started. None of my colleagues, which I have talked to, has any doubts,” Nalbandian noted.