Azerbaijan’s April aggression against Artsakh was serious blow to negotiation process: FM Nalbandian

There are no negotiations over the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict since the Azerbaijani aggression in April, 2016 against the people of Artsakh seriously impacted the negotiation process, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a joint press conference with Greek FM Nikos Kotzias on March 10.

“That’s why Armenia and the three Co-Chairing countries continue taking steps aimed at creating conditions for moving forward the negotiations. The Vienna and St. Petersburg summits were for this purpose.

It is obvious that Armenia and the three Co-Chairs are speaking with a one language, Azerbaijan with another. It is Azerbaijan that refuses to implement the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements,” Nalbandian said.

The FM stated that when agreements are reached, and then Azerbaijan refuses to implement them, a question arises, whether that country is ready for the peaceful settlement, whether it wants to solve the conflict through negotiations.

FM Nalbandian highlighted that, nevertheless, there is no alternative to the peaceful settlement of the conflict and the negotiations.

“We continue taking steps aimed at creating respective conditions for moving forward the negotiation process. The visit of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Azerbaijan is directed for this purpose. The Co-Chairs will visit Armenia on March 27, they will also visit Nagorno Karabakh,” the Armenian FM said, stating that in order to resume the negotiations, the events, that took place in April, 2016, must be ruled out.