YEREVAN. April 19 (Interfax) - Baku is seeking to torpedo Yerevan's efforts to establish peace in the South Caucasus, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said.
"Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's statements of April 18, 2023, once again demonstrated his intention to torpedo Armenia's and the international community's efforts to establish peace in the South Caucasus," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
"By making his statements, Aliyev openly demonstrated his disdain for various international partners, in whose presence and via whose mediation Azerbaijan recognized Armenia's territorial integrity and assumed a number of unambiguous obligations, including those on the demarcation of the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan based on the Almaty Declaration and on creating an international mechanism to address rights and security guarantees for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh," it said.
Aliyev "has openly admitted to planning aggression against and occupying the Republic of Armenia's sovereign territories, and revealed his intention to subject Nagorno-Karabakh's population to ethnic cleansing," it said.
"The hatred expressed by Azerbaijan's top leadership towards the Armenian people is clearly aimed at deepening intolerance and hatred towards it," the ministry said.
"Instead of looking for stable and lasting solutions to problems that have accumulated in the region for years, Azerbaijan is trying to advance its maximalist ambitions through the threat or use of force," it said.
"Armenia has repeatedly warned of the potential for destabilization resulting from Azerbaijan's policy, and drawn the international community's attention to the danger such actions pose for the global order based on international law," the ministry said.