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Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister: â€œYerevan shows its real face againâ€

23 April 2010 15:52 (UTC +04:00)

The Deputy Minister said Yerevan showed its real face again. â€œSerzh Sargsyanâ€™s action has tactical character. Sargsyan intends to force the US president to interfere in this issue deeper. His intention and decision show how â€œsincereâ€ Armenia is in its attitude toward Turkey and Azerbaijanâ€.

Azimov said Baku believed that notwithstanding pressures Turkey would keep its principal position. â€œNow Ankara has to increase its diplomatic efforts to show Armeniaâ€™s real face to the worldâ€.

Speaking about the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairsâ€™ proposal to organize meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Moscow on May 8, Azimov said after the Sochi meeting the discussions were under the question because Armeniaâ€™s proposals were not known. â€œIf Armenia wants to secure peaceful existence of 30 000 local residents in Nagorno Karabakh, it must reach a common agreement with Azerbaijan. The common agreement is the territorial integrity and it has no alternativeâ€.

He said the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh was also stagnated. â€œIt has several reasons. The biggest obstacle is a non-constructive position of Armenia. We have to note that Serzh Sargsyan rejected all proposals at the Sochi meeting. There are changes in the OSCE Minsk Group too. Russian co-chair Yuriy Merzlyakov was replaced with Igor Popov. It is high time for French co-chair Bernard Fassier to go on a pension. US co-chair Robert Bradtke is new. He is still learning the problems. This stagnation could be expected to last several months and there could be some changesâ€.