The views expressed once again by Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, regarding the former Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict are a distortion of reality, Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada said Tuesday, SİA informs.
In response to the local media inquiry regarding the comments of Zakharova on the issue of "Garabagh region and the CSTO," Hajizada emphasized that the Garabagh region has always been recognized by the international community, including the Russian Federation, as an integral part of Azerbaijan:
"Therefore, attempts to continuously keep on the agenda the issue of applying CSTO mechanisms to the sovereign territories of Azerbaijan, which had been under Armenia's occupation for nearly 30 years, and to associate this with whether or not the Garabagh region had been recognized by Armenia, are not only entirely groundless but also contradict Russia's own official position regarding Azerbaijan's Garabagh region."
The MFA spokesperson added that Azerbaijan has restored its territorial integrity and sovereignty in accordance with international law, thereby resolving the former conflict: "In this context, the practice of commenting on issues pertaining to Russia-Armenia relations by associating it with Azerbaijan should be ended."
Speaking at the Gvardeysk youth forum on July 27, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said although Armenia had called for the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to activate its mechanisms, it remained unclear against whom and in what context they should be applied. "It is well known that Armenia recognized neither Garabagh as its own territory nor as an independent entity. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to use the CSTO's collective security mechanism," she said.
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