Yerevan /Mediamax/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Edward Nalbandian said, "April aggression was so far the culmination of Azerbaijan’s destructive policy but not the end.”

He made this statement, while delivering a speech at the OSCE Ministerial Council on December 8.

“The Azerbaijani aggression was accompanied by gross violations of the international humanitarian law in an apparent attempt to terrorize the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. When many OSCE participating States have been condemning in strongest terms the brutalities committed by DAESH, most of them could not even imagine that the same kind of despicable crimes could be committed in the OSCE area, by an OSCE participating State. The images of those atrocities, including the beheadings, were circulated in the Azerbaijani media in a self-congratulatory manner. The perpetrators were publically decorated by the authorities. These inhumane brutalities reminded the horrors of the past,” Armenian FM said.

“In response to the condemnation by the Co-Chair countries of the threat or use of force the leadership of Azerbaijan keeps claiming that the international law is void and it is only possible to solve the issues through force. This was once again repeated before Hamburg meeting. On the eve of the OSCE Ministerial the bellicose rhetoric of Azerbaijan was accompanied by large scale military exercises involving 60 thousand troops, almost entire personnel of the armed forces, more than 150 tanks, 700 rocket and artillery systems and more than 50 units of military aviation, in gross violation of the OSCE Vienna document,” Nalbandian stated.

“It is our conviction that April aggression was so far the culmination of Azerbaijan’s destructive policy but not the end. Baku has been carefully hiding its military casualties of April aggression in an attempt to justify huge price of its adventurism but certainly it cannot hide the fact that together with human losses the peace process became its casualty,” the Minister said.

He stressed that Armenia had agreed to proceed on the basis formed at meetings in Vienna and St. Petersburg in May.

“These agreements have yet to be honored by Azerbaijan. From the very beginning Baku refused to implement the agreement on the investigative mechanism. As for the expansion of the capacities of the PR CiO’s office, Baku tries not only to curtail the implementation of the proposal but even impede mission's current activities in the conflict zone in violation of its OSCE mandate and further complicate the work of the monitors by attempting to keep them as far from the conflict zone as possible and diminishing their ability of rapid reaction,” Edward Nalbandian said.

“In the current circumstances of lack of trust and confidence the Co-Chair countries have to even more assertively pursue Azerbaijan to comply with its commitments. The implementation of the agreements in a good faith and without preconditions may open the door for starting to rebuild the trust – an essential prerequisite for a durable settlement,” said Foreign Minister of Armenia.