(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) Baku, Azerbaijan, March 24
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
The comments of the representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry are becoming more and more unprofessional, Spokesman of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend on March 24.
Hajiyev made the remarks commenting on Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan's statement on the Sarsang reservoir.
"The comments by the Armenian Foreign Ministry's representative are becoming more and more unprofessional and ridiculous day by day. As one can see they are deprived of any serious and substantial evidence to defend the Armenian occupation-status-quo policy. Who do they want to deceive with this narrow-minded policy? Supposedly only the Armenian people," Hajiyev said.
Previously, Hajiyev said that Armenia's policy of environmental terror must be stopped. Armenia continues the occupation of Azerbaijan's lands, including Sarsang reservoir, and pursues a policy of environmental terror and deliberate contamination of rivers, said Hajiyev, adding that this policy must be condemned.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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