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Azerbaijan is trying to bring ‘creativeness’ into the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian said on Tuesday at a joint news conference with the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn in Yerevan, commenting on Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s statement over territorial claims on Armenia.

“Baku was saying that it was necessary to hold comprehensive, substantive and logical talks, as if up to now those negotiations were neither comprehensive nor logical. If this is the case, why the country’s president was taking part in more than two dozen high-level meetings, if they appeared to be senseless and illogical?” the minister said.

Minister Nalbandian added that having successfully completed that phase of talks, Azerbaijan has now turned to the phase of “creative” proposals which, according to the official, stem from the country’s “unsound imagination”.

“The creativity led to the point when they are saying 2800-year old Yerevan or other Armenian territories are historical Azerbaijani lands, or the creativity is their constant threat of use of force,” he stressed.

Nalbandian noted Azerbaijan has probably found such a way to explain why they are refusing the proposals of the Co-Chairs elaborated as a whole at the highest level, probably finding them “primitive” rather than “creative”. He says Azerbaijan is waiting for those proposals to become creative, acceptable for them.

“They need to abandon the linguistic workout which has nothing to do with reality and return to the constructive field, to start with implementing their obligations and respect the previously reached agreements,” he said. 

According to Edward Nalbandian, maybe Azerbaijan is unable return to the constructive, and therefore it is necessary to bring them there.