Novruz Mammadov: "Vardan Oskanian trying to derail peace talks"

"Vardan Oskanian is trying to disrupt peace talks. As I understand, his latest statements signal that he wants to negatively affect the entire peace process," the head of the President's Office international relations department, Novruz Mammadov said, while commenting on Oskanian's statement that Nagorno Karabakh "has never been part of Azerbaijan and is Armenian land".

The Armenian minister also maintained that if Baku does not recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed republic, the occupied land would "never be returned".

"Azerbaijan reserves the right to free its land from under the aggressor country's occupation and this is in line with international law," Mammadov said.

He added that Armenia has recently been under pressure with regard to the conflict resolution, AssA-Irada reports.

/AzerNEWS/