(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 29. Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Armenia takes every opportunity to prevent
dialogue and reconciliation with Azerbaijan, Parvin Mirzazade,
Ambassador-at-Large of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, said in
his article about provocative actions carried out by Edmond
Maroukian, Ambassador-at-Large for the Armenian Foreign Ministry,
trend reports.
According to Mirzazade, the leadership of the Armenian MFA hopes
that the foreign patrons of Armenia will one day openly stand up
for the ideals of 'Greater Armenia' from sea to sea and send their
troops to fight for 'Artsakh' and 'Miatsum'. This is why Maroukian
in each of his tweets presents more and more provocations of the
Armenian side as actions of the Azerbaijani military, which dream
to 'destroy' the Armenians of the world. To this end, Marukian is
constantly spreading lies and misinformation, falsifying facts,
deceiving the world.
'In one of his comments he loudly stated that the EU observers
deployed in Armenia at the request of the Armenian side 'confirm'
facts of 'aggression and occupation' by Azerbaijan, as well as
unprovoked shelling from the Azerbaijani side. This statement came
as a great surprise both to European diplomats and at EU
headquarters in Brussels, who have neither disseminated such
information nor made any statement in this vein. Obviously, Mr AL's
desires are over the top and he is ready for any provocation to
smear Azerbaijan and Turkey at the same time,' Mirzazade said.
Scrolling through Maroukian's Twitter, you can see him
enthusiastically commenting on the statements made by newly
appointed 'friends' in support of Armenia, such as France and
Canada, who have completely forgotten about objectivity and
international law and are openly pro-Armenian, Calling on the
official Yerevan to be uncompromising and irreconcilable in the
peace process, Mirzazade said.
'As we know, France has recently openly sided with Armenia and
has in fact abandoned its status as mediator, which implies
impartiality and objectivity. In this regard, any participation of
France as a mediator is unacceptable. Azerbaijan may as well demand
the participation in the negotiations of its official ally Turkey,
which is much closer to the region of the South Caucasus than
distant France,' he noted.
The author rightly pointed out, this format is unacceptable to
Azerbaijan, even though France was once a co-chair of the defunct
OSCE Minsk Group, which collapsed, eventually.
The references to the Prague meeting that Maroukian trumpeted
were nothing but a bluff, because after that meeting French
President Macron openly sided with Armenia and made many
unacceptable statements and unfriendly steps towards Azerbaijan,
thus losing all rights to participate in the negotiation process,
Mirzazade noted.
'President Ilham Aliyev has publicly warned all the parties
concerned about this and put a fat end to French mediation.
Unfortunately, the Armenian side does not want a just comprehensive
peace, but only makes a 'peace-loving' pretence, trying under
various pretexts and excuses, with the support of foreign patrons,
to achieve 'Pax armenius' peace in Armenian, which in principle has
long been impossible,' he said.
AL of Azerbaijani MFA also mentioned how Maroukian recently
raised a worldwide alarm, stating that the actions of the
Azerbaijani armed forces in response to the armed provocations of
the Armenian illegal formations in the peacekeeping zone were a
prelude to 'forced deportation' the Armenian population of the
Karabakh region and that the only way to 'save' them is to seize a
part of the territory of Azerbaijan under the guise of
quasi-independence, followed by annexation to Armenia.
'Thus, Maroukian is setting the ideological stage for fomenting
a new war with his social media appearances. Time will tell how he
will fade into oblivion, as will a host of Armenian politicians
like him who have chosen war and sacrifice over peace and
reconciliation,' Mirzazade concluded.