Azerbaijan is negating Armenia’s trust-building efforts, says Yerevan

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan is negating Yerevan’s trust-building efforts, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, January 26.

The statement came in response to Azerbaijan’s reaction when Armenia’s National Security Service announced on Thursday that it will provide Azerbaijan what it called “new documents” containing information about a minefield in Karabakh.

The Armenian NSS said the decision was based on humanitarian considerations but Azerbaijan maintained that it won’t be regarded as a confidence-building measure.

“As mentioned on many occasions, Armenia, including as a confidence building measure, handed over to Azerbaijan all minefield maps which were at its disposal, having received them from Nagorno-Karabakh officials,” the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on X.

“Later, guided by humanitarian purposes, Armenia prepared new maps through inquiries among former officials of Nagorno-Karabakh in order to transfer the maps to Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, this initiative was immediately met with a very negative and ironic response from the Azerbaijani side, negating Armenia’s trust-building efforts, continuing to manipulate the topic and turning Armenia’s positive move into an occasion for escalating and negative rhetoric.”