Last week, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in an interview with Azerbaijani TV channels, threatened to suppress the attempts of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to address the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh. "They shouldn’t deal with the Karabakh conflict, because it has been solved. We solved it instead of them. Azerbaijan will fail the attempts of the OSCE Minsk Group to deal with the Karabakh conflict. We’ve been a party to this conflict," Aliyev said in particular. 

During the Q&A session with the government in the National Assembly, MP of the "Civil Contract" faction Sargis Khandanyan asked how the RA MFA is going to respond to this statement.

In response, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan noted that it's not the first time that the leadership of Azerbaijan makes unconstructive statements, which hinders the discussion of existing problems in a constructive atmosphere and finding acceptable solutions. "However, public statements don't always fully or partially coincide with the approaches discussed in closed rooms. Azerbaijan's position is one thing, reality is one thing, and the position of the international community is another thing. The reality is that, despite the position constantly voiced by Azerbaijan for a year or more that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been resolved, and there is neither the Nagorno-Karabakh problem nor Nagorno-Karabakh, during this year we have seen that the world completely disagrees with this, and the reality is not like that," Mirzoyan said.