Armenian Foreign Ministry: Armenia strongly condemns Azerbaijan's futile attempts to cast doubt on trilateral ceasefire agreement of 1994

Foreign Ministry of Armenia has responded to the April 21 statement by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
"Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan disseminated yet another cynical statement turning obvious facts upside down in an
attempt to put the responsibility for military actions, unleashed on April 2 by itself against Nagorno-Karabakh, on the Armenian side, the
purpose of which is to avoid responsibility for the committed war crimes.
It is not for the first time that Baku makes futile attempts to distort the obvious reality. During communications our international
partners have also confirmed that, beyond any doubt it was Azerbaijan, which initiated the large-scale offensive along the
entire Line of Contact with Nagorno- Karabakh, resulting in hundreds of killed and maimed, and committed war crimes.
Armenia strongly condemns Azerbaijan's futile attempts to cast doubt on the trilateral ceasefire agreement of 1994, signed by Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
and Armenia, that does not have time limitations. It is a dangerous step which threatens with further destabilization of the situation in
the region. The aggressive military actions launched by Azerbaijan at the beginning of April could not result in the cessation of the 1994
agreement, rather they raise the liability of the party which violated it.
All of this shows that, despite the calls of the international
community to continue the negotiations under the auspices of the OSCE
Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship, Baku's real intention is to undermine
the settlement process. The fact that the lengthy statement of the
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry does not contain any reference not only
to the statements of the heads of the Co-Chair countries on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution but it also lacks any mentioning
of the only internationally mandated mediation format of the Minsk
Group Co-Chairs whatsoever, clearly demonstrates that. Azerbaijan
strives to portray the negotiations as a kind of a process that
discusses solely those issues which fit Baku's interests.
It is obvious that calls and appeals are not sufficient anymore to
bring Baku back to senses. Definite steps are needed to bring
Azerbaijan to order and into a constructive mood," the Foreign
Ministry of Armenia says in the statement.
To recall, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued
on April 21 that Armenia allegedly "continues to undertake efforts
aimed at further consolidating the current status quo of the
occupation, strengthening its military build-up in the seized
territories, changing their demographic, cultural and physical
character and preventing the hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani
forcibly displaced persons from returning to their homes and
properties in those areas."
In support to its blatant lie, the Azerbaijani ministry did not
forget to mention the four UN resolutions saying: "The Republic of
Azerbaijan has repeatedly brought its strong protests and serious
concerns in that regard to the attention of the international
community and has made it clear on numerous occasions that the
unlawful presence of the armed forces of Armenia in the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan is the main cause of tensions and incidents
in the conflict zone and the major impediment to the political
settlement of the conflict."