YEREVAN, JUNE 27, ARMENPRESS. Deputy Parliament Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s last statement on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement is full of historical inaccuracies and false information.

“He speaks about the historical lands of Azerbaijan, but what is the history of Azerbaijan? Azerbaijan has a history of 98 years. Five times repeating the same nonsense thing does not raise the value of your words. By this you become more stupid in the eyes of people. As for the stage option of the conflict settlement which Aliyev and his staff speak about, our stance is the following: Nagorno Karabakh cannot be a part of Azerbaijan in any kind of status. The Nagorno Karabakh people started the struggle for their self-determination in 1988, and we will do everything to win this struggle. And the victory is the compulsory implementation of the expression of the Nagorno Karabakh people’s will and in the end the NKR people will decide their faith, which, of course, will not be a part of Azerbaijan. It is not Mr. Aliyev who can give independence to the NKR people, the God gives people the aspiration for freedom and independence, every people is given the international right to self-determination”, “Armenpress” reports, Sharmazanov said.

“The NKR people’s right to self-determination can never be questioned. The NKR people has never been and will never be a part of Azerbaijan. Let oil-rich Azerbaijan understand this forever”, he said.

Referring to Aliyev’s statement who said there is no need to install investigation mechanisms for incidents in the contact line, Sharmazanov said: “This is a clear step back from the agreements reached in Vienna. All sides announced that the St. Petersburg meeting is the logical continuation of the Vienna meeting, and I want to recall the Azerbaijani side that the necessity of the installation of trust mechanisms is written in the document in Vienna. Thus, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs must show their stance towards Aliyev’s such rejectionist behavior”.

To the question whether it is meaningful to continue meetings at the Presidential level taking into account the Azerbaijani President’s unconstructive statements, Sharmazanov stated: “I have always said negotiating is better than not holding a meeting. Firing from both sides is the alternative to negotiations, but our major goal is peace. If human life has no significance for Azerbaijan, every soldier’s and people’s life is the most valuable thing for the Republic of Armenia and the NKR. That’s why when I said that the St. Petersburg meeting gave positive results, I said this since after the meeting the fires were not taking place with renewed vigor, but rather at this moment peace is being strengthened”.

Sharmazanov recalled that official Moscow strictly reacted to the Azerbaijani stupid imagination on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement calling it perverted interpretation.