YEREVAN. – It is because of the approach by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs that the sense of permissiveness is getting stronger in Aliyev, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He stated this when asked how he assesses the Azerbaijani president’s reaction to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent statement with respect to the prospects for a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“Ilham Aliyev’s reaction results from the fact that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries [i.e. Russia, the US, and France] tolerate his provocative rhetoric and demeanor, for a long time,” noted Kocharyan. “It is because of this very approach by the co-chairs that the sense of permissiveness is getting stronger in Aliyev, and Baku is further intensifying its disrespectful attitude toward the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries and their proposals [for resolving the conflict].”

As per the deputy FM of Armenia, Azerbaijan not only refuses to implement the agreements that were reached at the Vienna and Saint Petersburg summits—and toward moving the Karabakh peace talks forward, but rejects the fundamental precepts which the co-chair countries have proposed for achieving solely a pacific settlement of the Karabakh conflict.