No Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting planned – MFA spox
No meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is scheduled at the moment, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan told a briefing on Wednesday.
He said there is an arrangement over a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, adding the date and venue of the meeting will be unveiled after agreeing it with the Azerbaijani side and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
“We have a set timeframe when to announce it,” he said, adding it testifies to Armenia’s responsible attitude toward the issue, while Azerbaijan announces about the meeting every week.
Balayan also commented on the recent Azerbaijani shelling of the Armenian border village of Baghanis, noting the Armenian Foreign Ministry has notified the Minsk Group co-chairs of the incident.
“The mechanism of our actions is clear in case of Azerbaijani shooting. First of all, the foreign ministries and ambassadors of the [OSCE Minsk Group] co-chairing countries, the co-chairs, as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office are notified of another gross violation by Azerbaijan,” he said.
The spokesman stressed the Azerbaijani violations are continuous is nature, which stems from the country’s destructive conduct by refusing to implement the agreements reached in Vienna, St. Petersburg and Geneva, which particularly refer to expanding Kasprzyk’s office and introducing incident investigation mechanisms along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan and Armenia-Azerbaijan borders.