Azerbaijan does not agree with US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent statement with respect to the Karabakh conflict.

“The statement made by US Secretary of State John Kerry about unreadiness of the leaders [of Armenia and Azerbaijan] to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict surprises and upsets us,” said Novruz Mammadov, deputy head of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration and chief of the administration’s foreign relations department, reported APA news agency of Azerbaijan.

Mammadov noted that such a statement by the Secretary of State Kerry, whose respective tenure is nearing its end ahead of the forthcoming US presidential election, causes a surprise.

“We would like for the US to clarify John Kerry’s statement, so that everyone would understand it,” he added.

US Secretary of State John Kerry had stated that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are not ready for a resolution of the Karabakh conflict.