Khazar Ibragim: "Azerbaijan does not negotiate its territorial integrity and never will"

After the OSCE Madrid Ministerial, the Armenian Government officials started aggressively pursuing propaganda to misrepresent the peace talks on Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict attempting to mislead both domestic and international public on the substance of the talks, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Khazar Ibragim said.

He said it was a clear indication of a pre-election hysteria to delude the Armenian people.

"The talks are built on the clear stance of the full restoration of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over the all occupied Azerbaijani territories and return of the ethnically cleansed by the Armenian state displaced people to their lands of origin, including Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan does not negotiate its territorial integrity and never will", Kh.Ibragim said.

At the same time, he noted that Azerbaijan has always demonstrated its very good will through the search of every opportunity to find a peaceful solution for the conflict and ruled out exhaustion  of diplomatic options.

"Armenia, on the contrary, through continued military aggression demonstrates its unchanged policy of the use of force, which is intolerable. The UN Charter article 51 gives a full right of self-defense if an armed attack occurs, while we see a paradox when aggressor state Armenia surpasses a victim of aggression Azerbaijan in military expenditures as percentage of GDP: 4.3 vs. 3.8. Besides, Armenia has heavily militarized separatists in Nagorno Karabakh", he added.

Kh. Ibragim noted that Azerbaijan values the position of international community, which has unequivocally supported territorial integrity of Azerbaijan through adoption of resolutions, statements, decisions both on the State and international organization levels,

"We strongly believe that propaganda by Armenian officials will ring another alarm bell on the real intentions of the Government of Armenia", Kh.Ibragim concluded.