Azerbaijan continues to award and proclaim murderers as national heroes, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian stated at a press-conference following the EU Eastern Partnership and Visegrad Four Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Prague.  

In his words, during the large-scale aggression of Azerbaijan, three captured soldiers were beheaded, one of the murderers being later awarded by the Azerbaijani president as a national hero.  

Nalbandian noted that four UN resolutions were adopted with a goal to stop hostilities. However, after the adoption of each of the resolutions, Azerbaijan refused to respect them. “Azerbaijan doesn’t respect them till now,” Nalbandian added.  

The FM also stressed that the agreements of 1994 and 1995 have no time limit and must be respected now.

He also referred to the notes sent by the Azerbaijani diplomats to the OSCE office in Vienna and New York, through which attempt was made to imply that the agreements of 1994 and 1995 had ceased to be in force. “My colleague told the Co-Chairs that the Ambassador of Azerbaijan had no instruction to do that: it was a unilateral personal initiative,” the Armenian FM noted.

Armenia continues working with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to restore environment for negotiations and to ensure there will be no repetition of the events that happened in early April, as well as to create mechanisms to investigate incidents and increase the capacity of the personal representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, he said.