NKR Foreign Ministry spokesman comments on lack of history knowledge of his Azerbaijani counterpart
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev in an interview with the Azerbaijani websites Haqqin.az stated that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has never participated in any of the rounds of talks on the development of the basic principles of Karabakh conflict settlement.
Commenting on his Azerbaijani counterpart the spokesman of the NKR Foreign Ministry Ani Sargsyan in an interview with Panorama.am noted, "Mr. Hajiyev never misses an opportunity to demonstrate his stunning ignorance of history and realia of the negotiation process."
Note that in the final document of the Budapest summit of the CSCE in 1994 three parties of conflict are mentioned - Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno Karabakh. This position was confirmed in Prague summary of the OSCE Chairman on March 31, 1995. From January 1995 to 1997, the negotiations within the Minsk Group in accordance with the Budapest summit decision were held between three parties - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh.