The last Summit of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Geneva this October also passed generally in a positive mood. However, just after it, Azerbaijan again returned to its usual groundless accusations and warmongering.

The Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, said the aforementioned in his address at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

“It goes without saying that the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is among the highest priorities on the Armenian foreign policy agenda,” he stated, in particular. “In the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council, on December 6th in Vienna I had a meeting with my Azerbaijani colleague, which was the sixth one in the course of one year and it lasted more than four hours. It generally passed in a positive atmosphere. However, after the meeting I said that we have to see how the situation will develop. Why? Because, the last Summit of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Geneva this October also passed generally in a positive mood. However, just after it, Azerbaijan again returned to its usual groundless accusations and warmongering.

“Last week at the OSCE Ministerial Council I made a detailed speech on the settlement process. The heads of the delegations of the mediator countries Russia, France and the USA, the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, issued a statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. Armenia was ready to join them, however, Azerbaijan rejected and, as a result, we did not manage to have a joint statement of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Co-Chair countries. This situation has continuously repeated during the OSCE Ministerial Councils.

“The Co-Chairs’ statement reiterated once again the three principles of the international law that form the basis of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution, namely the non-use of force or threat of force, territorial integrity, and the equal rights and self-determination of peoples. These principles were elaborated by the Co-Chairs together with the elements of the conflict resolution as an integrated whole. Here, in Athens all OSCE participating States, including Azerbaijan endorsed them during the December 2009 Ministerial Council. However, since then Azerbaijan has made a step back and refused to reaffirm them. On numerous occasions Armenia has continuously reiterated its readiness to continue negotiations based on these principles and elements with the aim of the exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict.”