YEREVAN. – Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries have repeatedly said that the party to Karabakh conflict that will aggravate the situation will be condemned by the international community, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said.

However, Azerbaijan pretends not to hear the calls, refuses to introduce mechanisms, although it is clear to everyone who violates the ceasefire, Nalbandian said during his joint pressers with Estonian counterpart Sven Mikser.

“The mediators are trying to react in a balanced manner, not to specify the party. But they are forced to make targeted statements, which happened recently. How many more calls should be made to make it clear that they are not enough and more effective measures are needed to curb Azerbaijan’s attempts to destabilize the situation. I think the international community is coming to a conclusion that appropriate steps are necessary towards a party that is constantly threatening to use force,” the minister said.

Answering a question about Baku's interpretation of the meeting in Moscow, the Armenian minister stressed that the meeting did not discuss any other document besides the text of the message for the media, which was discussed by the ministers in the presence of the mediators. Moreover, the Armenian and Russian Foreign Ministries published the agreed version, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan maintained that “the ministers discussed not the agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg”, but “discussed the talks in Vienna and St. Petersburg”, which is absurd. As for the content of the meeting in St. Petersburg, a joint statement was made, detailing the content of the meeting. After that, Nalbandian noted, Baku tried to make comments, which the Russian Foreign Ministry called distorted.

Commenting on the statements from Baku that the status quo is unacceptable, Foreign Minister noted that Azerbaijani officials are focused on some points and repeat them all the time, thus devaluating the meaning, but at the same time they act in an opposite way.

“They talk about the status quo, but who is behind ceasefire violations? Who hinders creating an atmosphere for the advancement of talks? They talk about freedom of speech and do exactly the opposite. They say one thing, they do something else. As for the UN resolutions - there are four of them because after each of the documents was adopted, Azerbaijan refused to fulfill them. The purpose of the resolutions was to stop the military actions,” Nalbandian said, adding that last April Baku tried to call into question the ceasefire agreement, and the mediators had to remind Azerbaijan that the agreement was unlimited and it must be implemented.