The Armenian Embassy in Russia has issued a statement in connection with the announcement of the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia, Polad Bülbüloğlu, and the recently frequent statements in which the Ambassador recalls the well-known UN resolutions and threatens to restart the war.  

“There is no doubt in that the initiator of this aggression was Azerbaijan. In all the recent statements - in the form of interviews and announcements - the Azerbaijani Ambassador is doing his best to consign to oblivion his own words uttered a few hours after the launch of the large-scale military actions in the Karabakh conflict zone, which  witnessed that exactly Azerbaijan initiated the military adventure. His ensuing claims are designed for the ignorant part of his compatriots.

We once again recall that the references to the Azerbaijani interpretations of the known UN Security Council resolutions and the selective commentaries on separate provisions of the key principles of the international legal settlement of the conflict in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group is the conscious distortion of the existing documents.

In this connection, we propose to the Azerbaijani Ambassador to study the detailed analysis of the patriarch of the Karabakh conflict settlement negotiation process, Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov, published Friday.

Such statements and commentaries of the Azerbaijani colleagues, which distort facts and reality, do not contribute to the current efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs towards the peaceful settlement of the conflict, which Azerbaijan allegedly strives for.   

As to the subsequent mention on the possible military solution of the problem, we would like to note that after Azerbaijan asked Russia to be a ceasefire mediator in the Karabakh conflict zone in 1994, enough time has passed to make sure of the impossibility of the military option.

Even if someone fostered such hopes, they crumbled in the beginning of April. Thus, it is illogical to come up with such rhetoric in Russia, especially when the latter once again shows an initiative to continue the talks on the peaceful settlement of the conflict.”