BAKU. May 4 (Interfax) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's accusations against Baku regarding regional processes are absurd, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
"We strongly condemn the absurd accusations that were repeatedly made by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in his May 4 speech during a joint press conference with the Czech prime minister in Prague in connection with Azerbaijan's installation of a checkpoint on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, and also Azerbaijan's alleged exacerbation of the situation on the Armenian border, [and] the creation of a humanitarian crisis in the Karabakh region," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said Baku considers any comments made by Yerevan on the issue of Azerbaijan establishing the Lachin border checkpoint on its sovereign territory, which Armenian residents have started to use to cross the border in both directions with full transparency, to be unacceptable. "Armenia should stop interfering in Azerbaijan's internal affairs and cease its aggressive policies [that it has] pursued against Azerbaijan for many years," the Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry also said Pashinyan's statements that Azerbaijan is conducting "ethnic cleansing" are absurd.
"Such statements made by the Armenian side in a period when talks on a peace treaty are being conducted do not serve peace," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
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