(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 10. The statements
made by the Armenian Prime Minister during his speech at the
Yerevan Dialogue forum on September 10 regarding both the draft
“peace agreement” and the Trilateral Statement dated November 10,
2020, are a distortion of realities, the spokesperson for
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aykhan Hajizada said
regarding the anti-Azerbaijani statements made by the Armenian
Prime Minister during his speech at the forum, Trend
reports.
According to him, the Armenian officials' call to sign a draft
“peace agreement” with the deletion of unagreed provisions, thus
trying to postpone the solution of the existing problems in
bilateral relations to the next stage, is unacceptable.
We once again remind that no matter in what form the Armenian
side intends to sign the“peace agreement,” the main condition for
signing the real and sustainable peace agreement is ending the
continuing territorial claim of Armenia against Azerbaijan that is
enshrined within its multiple legal and political documents, first
and foremost in the Constitution of Armenia that openly refers to
the Declaration of Independence of Armenia calling for“reunion of
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.”
When it comes to claims that there are territorial claims
against Armenia in the Constitutional Act of Azerbaijan, we
reemphasize that an attempt to draw parallels and balance the
Constitution of Azerbaijan and the Constitution of Armenia will not
yield any results. Unlike the Constitution of Armenia, the
Constitutional Act on State Independence of 1991 and the
Declaration of Independence of 1918 referred to in the Constitution
of Azerbaijan do not contain any territorial claims against
Armenia.
The reference by the Armenian side to the provision in the draft
peace agreement that“neither party may invoke its domestic
legislation for not implementing its obligations under the peace
agreement” to support the statement that the territorial claim in
its Constitution is harmless is null and void. We reiterate the
well-known fact that no international agreement can have a
superiority over the Constitution.
As for the Prime Minister's statement that Azerbaijan and
Armenia recognize each other's territorial integrity within the
framework of the Almaty declaration, we would like to remind the
fact that the country represented by the Prime Minister grossly
violated this obligation and occupied the territories of
Azerbaijan.
In the issue of opening up communications, the Prime Minister of
Armenia once again misinterpreted the obligations they had
undertaken. Paragraph 9 of the trilateral statement clearly states
the obligations of Armenia and how to organize control over
transport links.
In general, as a country that, following the signing of the
trilateral statement contrary to her obligations, continued its
military activities in the territories of Azerbaijan and did not
withdraw the Armenian armed forces from the territories of
Azerbaijan until September 2023, Armenia's claim about alleged
obstruction of the return of refugees and internally displaced
persons, ethnic cleansing against local Armenians, and non-return
of prisoners of war is a distortion of a reality. At the same time,
the presentation of the migration of Armenian-origin population to
Armenia and other countries after the 2023 anti-terror measures is
another slander campaign.
Regarding the return of prisoners of war, Azerbaijan does not
have any obligation to release war criminals and representatives of
the separatist junta regime. Adhering to the principle of humanism,
Azerbaijan handed over each of the prisoners of war to Armenia.
However, the mass arrests and persecution of prisoners of war by
the Armenian state after they were returned by Azerbaijan caused
special astonishment in the context of this state's“care” for its
citizens.
We call on the Armenian side, which continues aggressive
slanderous rhetoric against our country using various platforms, to
stop delivering statements that harm the prospects of peace,'' he
noted.
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