Permanent Representative of Armenia to the OSCE, Ambassador Armen Papikyan, commented on the actions of Azerbaijan at the request of Armenian News - NEWS.am and Armenpress.

Immediately before the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs cheduled in Bratislava today, the Azerbaijani side distributed a document reflecting the approaches of Azerbaijan to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

Thus, Azerbaijan demands to transfer control over the territories to it, return refugees to Karabakh and only then it agrees to determine the status of Karabakh within Azerbaijan.

“This is not the first and not the last such statement by the Azerbaijani mission,” he said. “The only difference between this statement is that it is distributed amid ongoing domestic political changes in Azerbaijan, which confirms that Azerbaijan is not ready for constructive participation at this stage. Maneuvering in talks through maximalist positions recognized weaknesses.”