Yerevan avoids substantive negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, strengthening its military presence in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, and by all means tries to maintain the status quo, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said during the meeting with the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, Herbert Salber, on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg.
According to the minister, the presence of the Armenian armed forces in the occupied Azerbaijani territories remains the main reason for escalation of the conflict in the region and it is the main obstacle to conflict’s resolution.
Commenting the EU citizen diplomacy measures implemented in the conflict settlement, Mammadyarov noted the importance of continuing the dialogue between the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The parties also mulled the prospects of developing the Azerbaijan-EU cooperation, Trend reports.
