BAKU. July 10 (Interfax) - Yerevan's implementation of the plan of the OSCE Minsk Group on the withdrawal of the Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani territories is the only way of settling the Karabakh conflict, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev said.
"Yerevan must implement the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs' plan on the withdrawal of the Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani territories to achieve the progress in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and ensuring sustainable peace," Hajiev told Interfax, commenting on Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan's statement on Azerbaijan's failure to fulfill obligations on the conflict settlement.
He recalled that the deployment of the Armenian Armed Forces to the Azerbaijani territories remains the source of a threat to the region's peace and security.
"Armenia precisely is the party that avoids settling the conflict through meaningful negotiations and implementing the well-known resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. While the OSCE Minsk Group and the entire international community call for meaningful negotiations, Armenia is hindering them in every possible way," Hajiyev said.
"Armenia thus is trying to avoid the essence of the negotiating process in the technical and additional means, which is ending the occupation and withdrawing its troops from the occupied territories," he said.
The Armenian side is intentionally shelling civilians living in communities along the frontline, "which led to the death of a resident the village of Alkhanly of the Fuzuli district and her two-year old niece and injuries of another civilian woman on July 4," he said.
"And now the Armenian foreign minister is justifying a cold-blooded murder of a minor, a crime against humanity, going beyond moral and ethical boundaries," he said.