"The aggressive rhetoric of the Armenian leadership, which threatens the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan and ignores its international obligations, shows that Yerevan is not interested in peace in the region."

This is stated in the comment of Aykhan Hajizadeh, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, in response to the speech of RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on March 23.

"We condemn and reject completely groundless accusations directed at Azerbaijan by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who persistently repeats the statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry on March 18," he emphasized.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan also advises Pashinyan to learn from history and guide Armenia, which has occupied Azerbaijani territories for 30 years, carrying out ethnic cleansing against hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis, and not to hinder the peace agenda that Azerbaijan is advancing from 2020, as well as to stop encroachment against the territorial integrity and interference in Azerbaijan's internal affairs.

"It is unacceptable that the return of former internally displaced persons who became victims of Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy to their homeland is considered as a violation of the Tripartite Declaration by Azerbaijan. In the same way, the Armenian side has no moral right to present itself as a "defender of the rights" of the Armenian residents of Azerbaijan.

It is absurd that Armenia, not only by destroying the property belonging to Azerbaijanis, both in its territory and in the cities and villages occupied for 30 years, but also by illegally resettling Armenians in those territories, opposes the implementation of Azerbaijan, the resettlement in their sovereign territories and historical lands. This statement directly contradicts the Prague and Sochi agreements, which Armenia refers to from time to time," the representative of the department said.