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MP Hayk Mamijanyan, the secretary of the opposition With Honor parliamentary faction, on Tuesday commented on the cancelled meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in Stockholm.

The meeting was expected to be held on the sidelines of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial Council, but Baku called it off following an Armenian parliamentary delegation’s visit to Artsakh.

Speaking to reporters in the parliament, Mamijanyan attributed the decision to cancel the meeting to Armenia’s weak position in negotiations.

The opposition MP noted that Azerbaijan's long-held dream is to transfer the discussions of the Artsakh issue to a different platform, with the process aimed at questioning the efficiency of the OSCE Minsk Group.

"It can be stated that Azerbaijan torpedoed the process in general. It is also obvious that the Azerbaijani side is taking the negotiation process out of the Minsk Group format, which is unacceptable to Armenia,” the lawmaker said.