BAKU. Sept 23 (Interfax) - Armenia seeks to stall the peace treaty talks, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the first meeting of the Seventh Parliament on Monday.
Azerbaijan initiated peace talks after the second Karabakh war, Aliyev said.
"There have been ten exchanges of comments since the moment of submission of our first draft [peace treaty]. Naturally, several months after we expected Armenia to present its comments to us in a faster way. Yet we observe the opposite process. We had to wait 70 days for their latest variant. All uncoordinated provisions were crossed out from their variant of the peace treaty. Truth be told, such a primitive and inadequate step was unexpected," he said.
"A number of issues give us reason to believe that Armenia does not want peace but seeks to stall" the process, Aliyev said.
Some Western countries may turn Yerevan against Baku, he said.
"The Armenian side is massively arming itself, [...] holding military exercises with foreign countries, and with large powers at that," Aliyev said. "Western countries are supplying weapons and munitions to Armenia. Thus, certain Western states' plans to pit Armenia against us are completely obvious," he said.
Western countries are using Armenia's territory to "create sources of threat there for Azerbaijan and Armenia's other neighbors and thus protect their own interests," Aliyev said.