Yerevan responds to Aliyev’s peace talks accusations

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s remarks about the cancelation of a planned meeting between himself and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels.

Aliyev on Friday, November 25 said a planned meeting with Pashinyan won’t happen as the latter has demanded the mediation of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Azerbaijani President said Pashinyan was trying to "scupper the peace talks."

We would like to remind you that the previous meeting in Prague, where an agreement was reached to continue the meetings, took place in a quadrilateral format, and it is logical that the format of the meeting and the composition of the participants should be the same.

“We would like to recall that the previous meeting in Prague, where an agreement was reached to continue the meetings, took place in a quadrilateral format, and it is logical that the format of the meeting and the participants should be the same,” Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan said Friday.

“All the statements of the Azerbaijani side that the Armenian side is trying to disrupt the meeting and the peace process have nothing to do with reality. The Republic of Armenia is ready for the December 7 meeting according to the agreement and format reached in Prague.”

At a November 7 meeting in Washington DC, Armenia handed over to Azerbaijan Yerevan’s proposals regarding the peace treaty. Hunanyan said on Friday no response had been received from Baku on the matter.

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia last met in Prague on 6 October 2022 in the margins of the first European Political Community at the invitation of the President of the French Republic and the President of the European Council.