Edmon Marukyan, Ambassador-at-large of Armenia, responded to the article of Parvin Hayam oglu Mirzazade, Ambassador-at-large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, in which the latter referred to Marukyan and a number of his posts on Twitter.
In his answer, Marukyan expressed confidence that there is a long-term and sustainable peace path in the region, and it is to withdraw the Azerbaijani servicemen from the sovereign territory of Armenia, to return all Armenian prisoners of war and detained persons, to carry out delimitation in accordance with the 1991 declaration and protocol of Alma Ata, opening of communications based on the sovereignty of the parties, as well as guaranteeing the safety, rights and freedom of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“At the same time, threats and violence cannot be the way to peace. Although threats directed at the Armenian people pass through the red line in your entire article.
Let me remind you that very recently President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed the trilateral declaration of Sochi, within the framework of which he agreed to refrain from the use of force and the threat of force. I am deeply disappointed that already today your statements have gone beyond the scope of the agreements reached by your own Government. I also regret that, despite 33 years of service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you tend to make contradictory conclusions.
On the one hand, you talk about respect for older people, which is accepted in the Caucasus, and on the other hand, you reserve the right to engage in personal insults. As the classic said, “If you want respect, don't start with insults.”
Lying, sometimes beyond imagination, is one of the tools you often use in your judgments. Under the guise of revanchism, lack of pacifism and other fabricated accusations, you hide your leadership's hunger to justify new military aggression. Under the same guise, you are trying to hide the massacres of tens of thousands of Armenians in Sumgait and Baku, which were accompanied by mass murders, looting and arson.
You also try to forget the constant violence against the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, as happened during the aggressions recorded during the escalations of the conflict in 2016 and 2020. You are trying to hide the killing of civilians, holding and shooting prisoners of war, mocking the corpses of dead servicemen and civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure, appropriation and desecration of cultural and historical heritage under the words of international law.
It seems that it was in such an atmosphere that your constant attempts to distort and completely rewrite history developed, with the special aim of appropriating Armenian cities and territories.
I will also emphasize the complete dissonance of your article when you make judgments about the concept of ‘sovereignty’. On the one hand, for you, the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan are clearly recognized and clear when it comes to the rights of the Artsakh people, on the other hand, there is a need for delimitation and demarcation of these borders when it comes to Azerbaijan's military aggression against the sovereign territories of Armenia.
I believe in peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan if there is a clear political will to implement all agreements and sign a peace treaty.
I can state with confidence that the Armenian side has a strong political will to implement all agreements and sign a peace treaty in the near future. Let's see if Azerbaijan has that political will,” Marukyan's answer reads.
