The Minsk group has already retired and does not actually exist, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking on a panel discussion on the topic “overcoming the mountains? Building security in the South Caucasus” as part of the Munich Security Conference.
”The Minsk group has already retired and does not actually exist. Maybe it only exists on paper. The former co -chairs of the Minsk group, which did not give any results for 28 years of work, still have some levers of influence on the situation. Therefore, has We have a platform organized by the United States, Russia and now the European Union, ”said the head of state.
Ilham Aliyev noted that France is no longer there because of the unilateral Provarmyan position of the French government: “And this is understandable when you are an intermediary, you cannot take anyone’s side. And you cannot demonstrate that you are accepting someone else side “.
The head of state also emphasized that if Azerbaijan had not decided the Karabakh conflict on the battlefield, peace negotiations would have continued for another 28 years. “Based on our experience, I can tell you that peaceful negotiations sometimes last too long. We have been conducting peaceful negotiations for 28 years. Can you imagine? From 1992 to 2020. And if we had not decided the Karabakh conflict on the battlefield, then these peace negotiations would last another 28 years. “
Ilham Aliyev noted that there are several platforms to discuss issues of the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia: “… One of them is the so -called Brussels format. And yesterday during a meeting with the chairman of the European Union Council Charles Michel, we again We confirmed our commitment to the process. Today, during a tripartite meeting organized by Secretary of State Blinken, we also discussed the Brussels process as a tripartite format … “.