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Azerbaijan’s geopolitical ambitions continue to pose a threat to security and stability in the South Caucasus, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday, denouncing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest statements.

"The statements made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on 8 November reaffirm that the Azerbaijani leadership’s geopolitical ambitions continue to pose a threat to security and stability in the South Caucasus and the wider region," he said before the start of a cabinet meeting.

“That speech, which is full of Implicit threats to the international community and explicit threats to Armenia, where the Azerbaijani leader is attempting to accuse Armenia and its government of failure to live up to its commitments, proves diametrically the opposite,” the premier noted.

Pashinyan highlighted that Aliyev’s statements came a day after the trilateral talks between the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington where they discussed a possible peace treaty.

“With this infamous statement, the Azerbaijani leadership has grossly violated the agreement to refrain from use or threat of force reached in Sochi on October 31. Contrary to the Sochi statement of October 31 and the Prague statement of October 6, the Azerbaijani leader is making claims to the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia in an effort to intimidate the civilian population with the menacing use of names and aliases of some Armenian settlements," he stated.