Azerbaijani MP: Karabakh Armenians should disassociate themselves from separatist gangs

"The fact that Karabakh Armenian community representatives refused Baku's offer to meet and to hold a dialogue speaks of the real situation," MP Tural Ganjaliyev said.

He told APA that the normalisation of relations with Armenia in the post-conflict period is one process, but the dialogue with the Karabakh Armenians is another process, it is the direction of Azerbaijan's internal work: "We consider the dialogue with the Armenian residents of Karabakh and issues of their reintegration as an internal affair of Azerbaijan. By offering a meeting to representatives of the Karabakh Armenian community, official Baku has once again demonstrated to the world that this is an internal affair of Azerbaijan, which will not allow any country or party to interfere in its internal affairs. Unfortunately, however, the aggressive separatist elements in Karabakh, and the Armenian diaspora supporting them, are still obsessed with revanchism. In this context, the refusal of the Armenian community in Karabakh to engage in dialogue is a harbinger of prepared, planned provocative campaigns against Azerbaijan. Further provocations are to be expected. Because there are still 10 thousand Armenian illegal armed groups in Karabakh, which have not been withdrawn from our territories. Armenia has not fulfilled the provisions of the trilateral statement.

Tural Ganjaliyev noted that despite Armenia's destructive policy, the negative approach to the constructive proposals of official Baku should be regarded as a provocation against our country: "The Armenian residents of Karabakh have no other way out. They must be reintegrated into Azerbaijani society. Karabakh Armenians must dissociate themselves from separatist elements, and must declare that they are not affiliated with aggressive, separatist gangs."