Yerevan accuses Azerbaijani President of torpedoing negotiations on  normalizing relations and preparing for another aggression

ArmInfo.The speech of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev delivered on March 16 during the summit of the Heads of State of the Organization of Turkic States was a clear manifestation of territorial claims against the Republic of Armenia and preparation of another aggression. This is stated in the statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

"Presenting the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia under  the fictitious name "Western Azerbaijan" the President of Azerbaijan  grossly violates the UN Charter, the UN GA Declaration on Principles  of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation  among States in accordance with the UN Charter, the Alma-Ata  Declaration, but also his own commitments undertaken by the Prague  and Sochi statements to which he is referring in this exact speech.

Azerbaijan continuously obstructs the return of refugees and  internally displaced persons to Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent  regions, while at the same time announcing that it is going to  resettle the territories that came under its control as a result of  the deportation of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Having violated basically all the points of the trilateral statement  of November 9, 2020 and with the narrative, which he himself admits  as fictitious, about the corridors the President of Azerbaijan is  obstructing the process of opening of regional communications.

The bellicose rhetoric of the leader of Azerbaijan is aimed at  completely disrupting the efforts to establish stability in the South  Caucasus and resorting to the use of large-scale force against both  the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-  Karabakh. Moreover, the insulting language used against the Armenians  of Nagorno- Karabakh, which is accompanied by actions aimed at  creating a humanitarian catastrophe on the ground, demonstrates  Azerbaijan's unconcealed policy of ethnic cleansing at the highest  level.

Moreover, voicing such provocative theses in Ankara aims not only to  undermine the ongoing peace negotiations between Armenia and  Azerbaijan, but also to hinder the positive dynamics in the process  of normalisation of Armenia-Turkey relations.  All partners  interested in the stability and peace of the region should give an  assessment to this policy of the President of Azerbaijan without any  hesitation and take active steps to eliminate the violations of  international law by Azerbaijan and exclude the manifestations of the  use of force."