Initiatives like the Blinken-Pashinyan-von der Leyen meeting can provoke new provocations in Armenia, where “revanchist sentiments prevail”, stated Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeihun Bayramov at the meeting with Pavel Knyazev, ambassador on special assignment of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to the report of the Azerbaijani side, Bayramov and Knyazev also discussed the process of regulating Armenian-Azerbaijani relations at the meeting held in Baku.
“Jeyhun Bayramov noted that a number of steps that create new challenges for the advancement of the peace process, including the attempts of countries far from the region and projecting their one-sided position in the region, slow down the process,” the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said. .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan singled out, in particular, the meeting of the Prime Minister of Armenia with the US Secretary of State and the head of the European Commission in Brussels on April 5 and claimed that the conference was held in a “non-transparent environment” and that “such initiatives may contribute to new provocations by Armenia, where are revanchist sentiments”.
Yerevan stated earlier that the meeting will be dedicated to strengthening Armenia-EU-US cooperation and is not against any third party.
Matthew Miller, the spokesperson of the US State Department, did not rule out that the Armenian-Azerbaijani issues will also be discussed on April 5, at the same time stressing that this issue is not on the main agenda of the meeting: “The Brussels meeting should focus on Armenia’s economic resilience.”