The ministry of foreign affairs and the Central Electoral Committee of Azerbaijan have come out against holding presidential elections in Nagorno Karabakh. The Committee called upon the "citizens of Armenian origin residing in Nagorno Karabakh to show will and say resolute no to those, who attracts them to the action, called "presidential elections". The Azeri foreign ministry statement in particular says that at the moment when peaceful negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh problem settlement continue, "the action of election of illegal Karabakh authorities" is considered as a challenge to the international legal norms and organizations.