Thursday, April 25 2024 13:49

ArmInfo. It is obvious that the falsehoods and fakes that the Russian President allegedly recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan back in 2020 are intended to confuse the Armenian and international public. This was stated on April 25 during a weekly briefing by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in response to a request to comment on the theses that the Russian President recognized Artsakh as Azerbaijani back in 2020.

According to Zakharova, these theses are periodically thrown into the  information space of both Armenia and the global information space.  "The statements and actions of the Russian leadership are absolutely  shamelessly distorted," the Russian diplomat noted.

In this vein, she proposed to cite once again the facts of how events  developed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. In that vein,  Zakharova recalled that it was thanks to the personal participation  of the Russian President that on November 9, 2020, a tripartite  declaration on a ceasefire and cessation of all hostilities in the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone was adopted.

"At the same time, a so-called 'gentleman's' agreement was reached  between the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia to postpone the  decision on the issue of determining the status of Nagorno-Karabakh  for future generations," she recalled, adding that the Russian side  has repeatedly commented on this matter in detail.

Zakharova then cited several quotes from the Russian President on  this matter. "The President of Russia said them on November 17, 2020  during a press conference. In particular, he said: "Nobody, not even  Armenia, recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. From the  point of view of international law, Azerbaijan was returning  territories that it and the entire world community considered  Azerbaijani territory.  But the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh has  not been settled. We agreed that we will maintain the status quo of  the current situation." How, after these quotes have been recorded,  are on the website of the President of Russia, in the archives of the  media, how such stuffing can be done is completely incomprehensible,"  she said, also once again noting that the Russian position was clear  and understandable, as evidenced by quotes from the President of the  Russian Federation.

At the same time, Zakharova recalled that it was following the  results of the October 6, 2022 Prague summit under the auspices of  the EU that the Armenian leadership recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as  Azerbaijani territory. "This is also confirmed by quotes from  official statements of the Armenian leadership. Moreover, there were  leaks in the mass media that the agreement on this matter was  approved by the American side at a meeting of high-ranking  representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the end of September  2022 in Washington. Probably, this also requires some "statements  from official Yerevan," she noted, advising people to pay attention  to statements of this kind, and not false statements and attempts to  invent something that did not exist.

Zakharova emphasized that Russia will defend its interests with  concrete facts.