Baku is taking steps to disavow the agreements reached during the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents' meeting in Vienna, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Hermine Naghdalyan said at a press conference following the plenary meeting of the CIS Inter- Parliamentary Assembly.
She said that Novruz Mammadov, Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, said no agreement was reached in Vienna regarding expansion of the OSCE CiO Personal Representative. "Meanwhile, the Presidents reiterated their commitment to the ceasefire and the peaceful settlement of the conflict. They agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism, and also agreed to the expansion of the existing Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Office. So, Baku is again trying to torpedo the agreements reached," Naghdalyan said.
She added that the international community should strongly condemn such statements of Azerbaijan. "It is due to the parity in international statements on the Karabakh problem that the peace process has been going round in a circle for nearly 20 years. The April war in the Karabakh conflict zone was also the result of that parity," she said, noting that the ceasefire agreement was signed in 1994 by Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan at the initiative of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.
The representatives of the Azerbaijani Delegation and the Chairwoman of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Council Valentina Matvienko also stressed the need to resolve the Karabakh conflict peacefully.