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Azerbaijan on Sunday condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying that Baku had started a border conflict with Armenia during her visit to Yerevan. Pelosi’s remarks that Azerbaijan had conducted an “illegal” assault on Armenia’s sovereignty was “unsubstantiated and unfair” and dealt a serious blow to peace efforts, said Azerbaijan.
“The unsubstantiated and unfair accusations leveled by Pelosi against Azerbaijan are unacceptable,” Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Pelosi is known as a pro-Armenian politician,” the statement added.
“This is a serious blow to the efforts to normalise relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” said the foreign ministry.
Azerbaijan repeated its position that the recent fighting was the result of “a large-scale military provocation” by Armenia, a narrative rejected by Yerevan.
Earlier Sunday, Pelosi condemned what she described as an “illegal” attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia that sparked the worst fighting since their 2020 war.
Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of initiating the border clashes on Tuesday, which claimed the lives of more than 200 people.
“We strongly condemn those attacks — on behalf of Congress — which threaten (the) prospects of the much-needed peace agreement,” Pelosi told a news conference in Yerevan.
“Armenia has particular importance to us because of the focus on security following an illegal and deadly attack by Azerbaijan on the Armenian territory.”
Pelosi said the attack was an “assault on (the) sovereignty of Armenia”.
Hostilities between the Caucasus arch foes ended overnight on Thursday thanks to mediation by the US, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonyan said.
Earlier attempts by Russia to broker a truce failed.
“We are grateful to the United States for the agreement of the fragile ceasefire reached by their…
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Source : france24
