Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said that use of force or threat of its use should not be exploited as a trump card. “The Azerbaijani authorities’ bellicose statements and disseminating ethnic hatred rhetoric not only violate the international law, but also contradict the promises of Azerbaijan about its intention to secure prosperity of the Karabakh people,” Mr. Nalbandian said at Carleton University, Ottawa.

“It is impossible to resolve a conflict, offering its reason as a settlement mechanism,” the Foreign Minister noted in his comments on outlooks for the Karabakh conflict resolution.

According to him, Azerbaijan hopes that its waving flag over Stepanakert will symbolize the conflict resolution. “In reality, Stalin’s forcible imposing of the Azerbaijani flag to Artsakh in 1921 became the reason for the further Karabakh conflict,” stressed Nalbandyan, the RA MFA press service reported.