Armenia 1st Ombudsman: Such meetings of Armenia and Azerbaijan FMs pose threat to Armenians’ security

Such meetings of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan pose a threat to Armenians’ security. This is what Armenia’s first Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“Judging from the statement, there was a serious discussion on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue during the meeting of the foreign ministers, in spite of all the statements that Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan was making all this time, saying that Yerevan has no mandate to discuss the issue. This meeting fully refutes the Armenian authorities’ public statements since essential issues were clearly discussed during the 5-hour and 7-hour meetings,” she added.

According to her, based on the text of the statement, one can deduce that the issues that were discussed were issues related to preparing the peoples for peace and creating a basis for future settlement of the conflict.

She added that the claim that there is intensification of the process and that there will be competitive results also entail questions. The first Ombudsman declared that, in terms of law, the process is nothing since Armenia and Azerbaijan have no legal grounds to consider the issue of another state.

From January 28 to 30, in Geneva the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs held separate and joint meetings with Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov. Based on the results of the meetings, the foreign ministers and the Co-Chairs issued a joint statement.