BAKU. Feb 15 (Interfax) - The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has turned down Yerevan's call for augmenting a draft peace agreement with an international mechanism to discuss the provision of rights and security of Karabakh Armenians and has described it as an interference in Azerbaijani internal affairs.
"Armenia's initiative aimed to establish an international mechanism for discussing rights and security of ethnic Armenian residents of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and the attempts at including this provision in a draft bilateral peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia are completely groundless and will bring no result," Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada said.
In his words, "Armenia has no interest in bringing peace to the region."
"This proves that Armenia still has territorial claims to Azerbaijan despite norms and principles of international law and the Paris and Sochi agreements by which the sides recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty," Hajizada said.
"We'd like to remind once again that Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan, and rights and security of ethnic Armenian residents of the region will be provided consistent with the Azerbaijani constitution. Armenia's interference in the process of reintegration of ethnic Armenian residents, which is an internal affair of Azerbaijan, is inadmissible," he said.