Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Republic cannot be a part of Azerbaijan, cannot be any integration, our people cannot live in our own land as “Azerbaijani citizens,” our realized right to self-determination should be recognized fully and internationally. Artak Beglaryan, Chief of the Presidential Staff of the Artsakh, wrote about this on Twitter, referring to Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev’s statement made during Friday’s press conference that the issue of the status of Artsakh should be removed from the political agenda.

The head of the Artsakh presidential administration opposed also Aliyev's claims about the Armenian captives in Azerbaijan that, allegedly, solely terrorists were still detained in Azerbaijan, and Baku had returned all the Armenian captives and the bodies of the dead.

“Aliyev lies on captives, as: They keep not only post-war captives, but also wartime civilians (incl women & elderly) & many PoWs with undeniable evidence; Post-war 62 captives weren’t engaged in any battles; Azerbaijan killed some captives at prison with tortures [i.e., probably referring to the cases of Misha Melkumyan and some others presented by Aliyev],” Beglaryan tweeted.

“The level of Armenophobia & hatred in Aliyev’s speech is continuous, which isn’t a sign of peaceful sentiments. Xenophobia against Armenia|ns has deep, widespread & aggressive manifestation in the Azerbaijani society encouraged by the authorities & President himself,” stressed the chief of the presidential staff of Artsakh. 

“If Aliyev says that no evidence was found on involvement of mercenaries by Azerbaijan, then what about the captured mercenaries, their witnesses, the high-level statements by Russia, France, US, Iran & others? Seems he says to the world: ‘we did but you couldn’t prove…,"’ Artak Beglaryan concluded

And referring to Aliyev's slander over the visa requirement to enter Artsakh, the head of the Karabakh presidential staff wrote: “Azerbaijan cannot have any role in the procedures of entry of foreigners to Artsakh/Karabakh Republic. It’s our exclusive right/function technically implemented together with Russian peacekeepers from security aspect. No interference is acceptable.”