Azerbaijan will use COP-29 to create a smokescreen for attempting to legitimize its future escalation- Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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YEREVAN, October 7 /ARKA/. Azerbaijan will use COP-29 to create a smokescreen for attempting to legitimize its future escalation of the situation, Ani Badalyan, spokeswomen for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said in a comment on Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s allegations that Armenia is trying to persuade world leaders to ignore COP-29 summit that is to be held in Baku in November.br/pp ‘’I would like to draw your attention on the fact that the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson did not anyhow respond to the questions I raised in my October 4 comments. The questions were the following: is Azerbaijan planning aggression against the Republic of Armenia? Is it refusing to recognize the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, is it abandoning the peace agenda? ‘’ she said in an interview with Armenpress./pp ‘’Official Baku’s aggressive rhetoric and refusal to sign the peace treaty that includes the agreed-upon articles have made many Armenian and international experts conclude that Azerbaijan will use COP-29 to create a smokescreen for attempting to legitimize its future escalation of the situation’’, she said./pp

According to her, the number of such analyses has been growing. Many analysts believe that ruling out such a prospect requires the signing of the agreed-upon content of the peace treaty ahead of COP-29, otherwise the leaders heading to Baku can unwittingly become instigators of war. In its turn, Armenia says it is ready to sign the peace treaty ahead of COP-29./pp ‘’I underscore that the Republic of Armenia endorsed the decision to hold COP-29 in Baku as an instrument of establishing trust between the parties and peace in the region, and we wouldn’t want it to be used for the opposite purpose’’, she said./p