YEREVAN. – Armenia’s National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov commented on his Azerbaijani counterpart Bahar Muradova’s statement, which she made on Monday, according to which Turkey must replace France as an OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing country. 

“With the stubbornness of the well-known animal, Azerbaijan yet again puts itself into a funny position. It is enough to just read the January 23 trilateral Sochi statement—which [Azerbaijani President Ilham] Aliyev likewise signed—which recalls that the [Karabakh] problem solely has a peaceful solution, and that the co-chairing countries Russia, US, and France will have an active role in the future, too, and in this status, in the settlement issue. Azerbaijan found itself in an awkward situation once again. As they say, they wished for the better, but it turned out as always,” Eduard Sharmazanov concluded.