'Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is Armenia’s territorial claims against Azerbaijan'

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry regarded Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's recent statements about character of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as 'gratifying and at the same time strange'.

"It is gratifying and at the same time strange to hear such statements by a person, who has attempted to convince all that "there is no Christian to the east of us [Armenians]" and that "the Armenians are allegedly ancient Christian nation in the world", Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's spokesman Elman Abdullayev said.He commented on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's statement that "the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not religious in nature".

According to the Armenian media reports, Sargsyan said on Monday at the CIS Inter-religious Council Presidium meeting that the Karabakh conflict is not religious in nature and one cannot allow religious of the two countries - Christianity and Islam opposed each other.

"One can feel evolution of Mr. Sargsyan's thinking. However, even without his statements, it is obvious that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not religious in nature, and it is clear that this conflict is based on Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan," Abdullayev said.

"It is interesting that Sargsyan attempts to look constructive and tolerant, despite the fact that over these years Armenia has destroyed Muslim religious and cultural monuments in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and current Armenia's territories which belonged to the Azerbaijanis," Abdullayev said.


/Trend/