YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan does not renounce its maximalist posture, and considers the peace process as a means of gradually fulfilling all its demands. Armenia’ Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this Friday during the joint meeting of the Security Councils of Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), in Yerevan

"That is, [for Azerbaijan] it [the Artsakh peace process] is not a way to reach a compromise, but a way to gradually fulfill all its demands; it doesn't happen that way, and it won't happen. The negotiation process is not a concert by order with one or two intermissions; peace implies a willingness to make compromise and comprehensive solutions.

Given this very willingness, I had put forward the formula according to which any resolution to the Artsakh issue must be acceptable for the people of Karabakh, for the people of Armenia, and for the people of Azerbaijan. This formula is nothing but a proposal to accept the possibility of compromise.

By not accepting my proposal, the President of Azerbaijan does not accept any possibility of compromise at all. And so it is obvious that with such approaches, we cannot expect real progress in the negotiation process, especially when they are accompanied by threats of war, or direct or indirect territorial or historical demands against the Armenian people," Pashinyan added.