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Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan has responded to the statement of Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev that the main expectation of Azerbaijan from Armenia is the recognition of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan.

In response to an inquiry of Armenpress, Armen Grigoryan noted that in the context of that announcement, the Azerbaijani officials should specify which territories they see in the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan for Armenia to clarify its position.

“We have already stated that there is nothing unacceptable in the proposal of mutually recognizing each other's territorial integrity by Armenia and Azerbaijan. We also said that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other's territorial integrity in the early 1990s,” the security chief said.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a territorial issue for us, but an issue of security and rights for the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. But some statements by a number of high-ranking Azerbaijani officials need to be clarified. In the context of these statements, we believe that the Azerbaijani officials should specify which territories they see in the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan so that Armenia could clarify its position,” Grigoryan noted.