Baku ready for dialogue with Garabagh Armenians Azerbaijani president’s aide tells Euronews

Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to Azerbaijan’s President - Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, has said Azerbaijan is ready to start immediate contacts with Garabagh Armenians.

"It was a limited operation as a result of which means military infrastructure has been neutralized, within a greater extent. And today, we are glad to say that military operations [have] been halted from Azerbaijani side as well. While getting this message from Karabakh Armenians, that they are disarming their armed forces on the ground,” Hajiyev said in an interview with Euronews.

"Azerbaijan made its intention very clear that if they disarm or decided to disarm, and Azerbaijan is ready to halt this military engagement and to start immediate contacts with Karabakh Armenians - that we have on multiple occasions invited to Ağbulaq and some other the cities of Azerbaijan. And yesterday, presidential administration of Azerbaijan made a statement once again reiterating and our invitation to them to have this kind of context about an all elements reintegration."

"We are supporting the peace agenda and we do think that sooner finalising a peace treaty between two countries is better for the wider region. Azerbaijan also supporting the concept of the integrated region of those Caucasus and within that process, of course, in a vote in the court of Armenia, instead of searching and seeking the territorial claims of the neighbouring countries, Armenia should also seek good neighbourly relations with the neighbouring countries."