The current status quo is the result of aggression and consequent hostilities of Azerbaijan against NKR and its people, the NKR Foreign Minister said.

"As an initiator of the war, Azerbaijan carries full responsibility for the consequences. The existing status quo is the minimum that allowed guaranteeing the security and independence of NKR and its people under Azerbaijani aggression," Georgy Petrossian said.

"The policy of the NKR authorities is directed to maintaining peace and guaranteeing the irreversibility of the process of establishment of long-time stability in the region. Changing the status quo, as we see it, will inevitably lead to destabilization of the situation and escalation of tensions with a possible resumption of hostilities. During the years of Soviet rule, the leadership of the Azerbaijani SSR, including "national leader" Heydar Aliyev, was trying to make Nagorno Karabakh not self-sufficient and dependent on Baku, first of all with their attempts to change the demographic composition of the population. This was also the case while drawing the borders of the former Nagorno Karabakh autonomous region. Today, they are trying to return Nagorno Karabakh into the past. However these attempts are doomed to failure," he said.

"The readiness to risk regional peace, a basic precondition for social-economic development and realization of international investment projects, makes the policy of official Baku a serious threat not only to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, but also to regional peace and security," the Minister added.