The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan has responded to the protest of the Armenian side regarding the holding of an event in the occupied Armenian city of Shushi in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Azerbaijan-UN relations, and with the attendance of UN representatives.

Head of the Press Service Department of the Azerbaijan MFA, Leyla Abdullayeva, stated on Sunday that "the protest of the Armenian foreign ministry regarding the participation of the UN representatives in the event in Shusha [(Shushi)] is groundless and inadmissible."

Abdullayeva stated about the "Azerbaijani belonging" of occupied Shushi.

"Armenia's still territorial claims against Azerbaijan show that this country has not drawn the right conclusions from the 44-day war [in the fall of 2020]," she said.

Then the Azerbaijan MFA representative stated that the "UN has never taken a neutral position on the former Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict," and made references to the UN resolutions which the Azerbaijani side presents in a distorted way.

Thus, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has questioned the objectivity and impartiality of the UN.

The UN representatives, however, have not dismissed this allegation yet.