YEREVAN. - The statement of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is another attempt to distract the attention of the domestic audience from the rooting of family authoritarian system in the country, violation of human rights and persecution of dissidents.

Armenian Deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan told the aforementioned to Aysor.am on Friday, referring to the subsequent statement of Azerbaijani President on Karabakh issue.

“The only internal matter of Azerbaijan round Nagorno-Karabakh is to prepare its own society to the settlement of the issue on the basis of the principles proposed by the mediators, which include determination of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh through the self-expression of Artsakh people, which has a binding legal force,” Kocharyan said.  

In his words, instead of preparing its own people to peace, Azerbaijan makes statements aimed at ignoring the serious consequences of the Azerbaijani aggression against Karabakh in the 90s and involving its own people into new aventurism.