Tural Ganjaliyev: There is no notion “Nagorno-Karabakh people”

During yesterday’s meeting, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, attempting to distort the conflict, portrayed the Armenian community in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan as a “people,” said Tural Ganjaliyev.

The Head of the Azerbaijani community in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan made the remarks while commenting on the online meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia that took place on June 30 with mediation and participation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-In-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, to discuss the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict settlement.

“No such a notion called “people of Nagorno-Karabakh” exists, but there is the population of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, which includes the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of the area. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used the expression “Nagorno-Karabakh population” during one of his recent visits to Baku, which is a consistent response to the Armenian side,” Ganjaliyev said.

“As envisaged in the final document of the Helsinki Summit of the CSCE (now the OSCE) held in March 1992, Armenia and Azerbaijan are parties to the conflict, the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are interested sides of it.

The Armenian Foreign Minister’s attempt to distort the conflict’s format is another sign of Armenia’s unconstructive position and is aimed to delay peace achievement,” the Head of the Azerbaijani community stressed.