"Today, I consider Armenia's talks about peace to be a kind of manipulation," the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said this at the meeting with the delegation led by the European Union Special Envoy for Eastern Partnership Dirk Schuebel, the office of the President of Azerbaijan informs.

At the meeting, Schuebel noted that he visited Azerbaijan after his visit to Armenia and added that the main message he received from the meetings held in Armenia was that Armenia is also interested in achieving peace.  In response, Ilham Aliyev said:

 "Today, I consider Armenia's talks about peace to be a kind of manipulation, because if they really wanted peace, they would have responded to our proposal. We were the ones who immediately after the end of the war proposed to start the negotiations on the peace treaty. Armenia was very hesitant at the initial stage of this process, and now they are talking about peace, but we do not understand what peace means for them. However, our position is very clear... we have to go two ways - the process of regulating Azerbaijani-Armenian relations, as well as issues related to the Armenian minority in Azerbaijan and Karabakh in terms of rights and security," Aliyev noted.

He said that yesterday during the telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, they talked about all that.

"We fully understand that there should be two ways and they should not be mixed, but the statements from Armenia are highly contradictory. They say they recognize our territory and sovereignty. Not only they say, but they also sign in Prague and Sochi. This means the sovereignty of our entire territory.  We all understand what sovereignty is. At the same time, they want to include the problems related to the Armenians living in Azerbaijan in the peace treaty. It won't happen. It is impossible. We will not agree to this.  Therefore, we need a very clear position of the Armenian government regarding its agenda. I recently said that if they want peace, we want peace too. If they do not want peace, then it is their choice. We have not had peace for thirty years, and Armenia should not forget how it ended," Aliyev said.