Official Baku criticizes Josep Borrell's statement

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan responded to the statement of Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on developments in the region, Report informs.

According to MFA, the statement by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued on September 21, on the latest developments in the region deliberately distorts all the realities on the ground and is totally inadequate:

"Besides this organization has always refrained from condemning almost 30 years of military occupation of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territories, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity against Azerbaijanis, and has never commended Azerbaijan’s actions to bring peace and stability in the region following the 2020 war, taking such a biased approach towards Azerbaijan into the level of a threatening statement is detrimental to peace in our region.

"We once again remind that Azerbaijan’s legitimate measures to eliminate illegal Armenian military forces stationed in its sovereign territories was aimed at preventing further provocations and attacks and that its allegations about Azerbaijan’s counter-terrorism measures was against the Armenian population was even denied by the Prime Minister of Armenia in its address to the population on September 21."