BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 5. The Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry commented on recent statements in Russia regarding
Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, Trend reports.
"During the meeting between the President of the Russian
Federation, Vladimir Putin, and the Prime Minister of Armenia,
Nikol Pashinyan, held in Moscow on 1 April, and in the following
days, Russian officials in public discussions touched upon issues
strictly related to Azerbaijan’s internal affairs.
In this regard, our position on the inadmissibility of using the
Garabagh region of Azerbaijan for political speculation and our
expectations for the cessation of such actions have been brought to
the attention of the Russian Presidential Administration, the
Government, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through diplomatic
channels.
Despite this, the topic remains present in the official
political discourse of the Russian side. Specifically, today, in an
interview with the Vesti, the Press Secretary of the Russian
President, Dmitry Peskov, while expressing his position on
Armenian-Russian relations, once again commented on whether the
Garabagh region is recognized as part of Azerbaijan first by Russia
or by Armenia.
The fact that Garabagh region is an integral part of Azerbaijan
is based not on the decision of any state, but on history,
international law, and justice. This was once again reaffirmed and
fully re-established as a result of the 44-day Patriotic War of
2020 and the 1-day anti-terror measures of 2023.
We once again remind the Russian side that no country, including
the Russian Federation, has ever questioned the territorial
integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan including the Garabagh
region.
We once again bring to the attention of the Russian side our
expectations that issues related to Azerbaijan’s sovereignty will
not become a subject of public clarification of relations at a time
when Russian-Armenian relations are complex," the ministry
noted.
