Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) State Minister Artak Beglaryan has said that Artsakh will never be a part of Azerbaijan.

Beglaryan on Monday, August 16 weighed in on a recent interview by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev who said only 25,000 people have returned to Karabakh after the war in late 2020.

"Lies don't become truths by repeating; Artsakh/Karabakh now has 120,000 population, not 25,000," Beglaryan tweeted. "Artsakh will never be a part of Azerbaijan, forget."

Beglaryan also noted that Karabakh expects a clear reaction from the international community on Aliyev's confession that Azerbaijan was the one to launch the war on September 27, 2020.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev on November 9 signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Under the deal, the Armenian side has returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities.