Edmon Marukyan, ambassador at-large of Armenia, in a news briefing with journalists, referred to the statements of Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, about the "reintegration of the population of Karabakh into the Azerbaijani society". "There is no other way, game is over", he had said.
"Hikmet Hajiyev's statement, you know, is not a diplomat's statement, when we are talking about more than 100,000 people facing the threat of ethnic cleansing, genocide, starvation, we are just talking about a game... If the lives of 100,000 people are a game for Azerbaijan, it seems to me that it should be left to the conscience of the international community, let them consider it", Marukyan interpreted Hajiyev's speech this way.
As for the issue of "integration", according to Marukyan, Azerbaijan has the opportunity to start negotiations with Nagorno-Karabakh and negotiate about it, as they say. "Let them negotiate, NK representatives will decide what they want, what rights they represent. Ultimately, the rights and security negotiations, the issue of guarantees of rights and security under the international mechanism should be addressed within the framework of the Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan negotiations.
Hajiyev says the game is over, you have to integrate. Go negotiate and tell people! You don't negotiate on Twitter. I continue to insist and believe these discussions will take place between the representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan", said Edmon Marukyan.
