News - Pashinyan to Aliyev's proposal: We are against logic that would take us out of already agreed principles’ framework

Whenever Azerbaijan tries to offer another platform, it can be interpreted by us that by moving to another platform, Azerbaijan wants to neutralize the already agreed principles. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in an interview to Public Television, referring to the proposal by the president of Azerbaijan to hold the peace talks in Georgia. "A meeting was held in Granada, [Spain], and the principles of the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan were recorded on the EU platform, from our point of view and that of the EU. It is clear that when we meet in Brussels, the conversation should take place within the framework of those principles, which I would not say correspond only to the interests of Armenia. "And now, when we are discussing the issue of meeting in Brussels, whereas Azerbaijan is trying to offer another platform, it can be interpreted that Azerbaijan, by moving to another platform, wants to neutralize the already agreed principles. "This is the problem. We say: let's determine the principles, sign under those principles, declare those principles; that is, let it be clear in what framework we are talking and what will be our future result. But when we leave this and propose other platforms, and in fact there is an impression that we want to push these principles out, and our concerns that there may be a hidden plan behind the process, that the process be carried out with the use of force, with a new war, with a new escalation, deepens. We are not against any conversation, but we are against the logic that would take us out of the framework of the already agreed principles," said the Armenian PM A few days ago, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had suggested Nikol Pashinyan to hold the peace talks in Georgia.