(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 21 . Armenian
officials are trying to rekindle the fire of war with their
provocative statements and misinformation, which can cost the
Armenian people dearly, Parvin Mirzazade, Ambassador-at-Large of
the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, said in his overview about the
provocative statements made by Edmond Maroukian,
Ambassador-at-Large for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, trend reports.
According to Mirzazade, Maroukian continues his destructive
activities aimed at undermining the possible achievement of a peace
agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Using his Twitter account (as a source of disinformation and
lies), this newcomer diplomat attempts to convince his own people
and the international community that a peace agreement between the
two states can only be reached if part of the sovereign territory
of Azerbaijan - the Karabakh region - is torn away in the name of
the illusory 'rights and security' of the Armenian population
living there,” Mirzazade said.
Exposing Maroukian's statements, Mirzazade noted that Maroukian
proposes to re-unleash the spiral of the almost extinct conflict,
putting forward impracticable interpretations of the peace
agreement and utopian preconditions, knowing in advance that all
this is a red line for Azerbaijan and actually an excuse for
resuming hostilities.
After President Ilham Aliyev's vivid, insightful speech in
Shusha on 8 November 2022, at the celebration of the second
anniversary of victory in the Patriotic War, Armenian officials
were greatly frightened, and therefore gave Maroukian the
opportunity to appear in the country's government newspaper,
Respublika Armenia, where he tried to comment on President Ilham
Aliyev's speech in an unfortunate attempt to at least somehow
improve the image of the current Armenian authorities.
As Mirzazade pointed out, Azerbaijan proposed 5 basic principles
of peaceful settlement, which were accepted by the Armenian side.
Now, the representatives of official Yerevan are trying to
interpret them in their favor, distorting their essence and putting
forward additional impossible preconditions.
Mirzazade noted that, unjustified accusations against Azerbaijan
tend to be counterproductive for the Armenian officials, and,
instead of gaining domestic and foreign support, they continue to
lose their low rating.
“President Ilham Aliyev is making it clear to the Armenian
leadership that if they really want peace, it is time to stop
wagging their tails and to sit down at the negotiating table and
negotiate on the basis of these basic principles. Otherwise, the
consequences of disrupting the peace process will fall entirely on
the Armenian side,” he added.
“There is only one path - the peaceful coexistence of the
peoples of the two countries, mutual recognition of territorial
integrity, not the Armenian version 'without the Karabakh region'
(which Armenian politicians have been trumpeting recently), fair
delimitation and demarcation of the border, opening regional
transport corridors, and the establishment of inter-ethnic dialogue
and reconciliation,” Mirzazade concluded.