Baku reserves the right for "adequate response" if Armenia "fails to fulfill" its obligations within the framework of the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the summit in Ankara.

He assured that Azerbaijan allegedly "fulfills all the points of the declaration, including providing unimpeded access from Armenia to Karabakh." "Armenia does not fulfill its part of the declaration. Namely, it does not provide unimpeded access from the main part of Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, which is its legal obligation, and it still has not withdrawn Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijani territory," Aliyev said.

According to him, Azerbaijan "shows patience for now, but it is not unlimited." "If these two important points of the trilateral statement of November 2020 are not fulfilled, we will have no other choice but to act adequately," Aliyev said.

The president also touched on the issue of Armenians in Karabakh, reiterating that "the rights and security of the Armenian population of Karabakh will be ensured in accordance with the Constitution of Azerbaijan." "We are not going to discuss our internal issues with any party. And as far as I understood from the results of the meeting in Prague, this topic did not cause any discrepancies between all the participants of the quadrilateral meeting," Aliyev said.

He noted that it was "through Russia's mediation that the hostilities on the border with Armenia were stopped." "As a result of the mediation activities of the Russian side, I would like to emphasize that it was the Russian side that proposed a ceasefire - some attribute this to other countries, which is completely groundless - the hostilities [on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia] were stopped."