Marukyan Comments on Haji-zade's Statement Regarding Villages

Former ambassador with special assignments Marukyan has responded on his social media page to the tweet of Aykan Haji-zade, spokesperson of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had reacted to the statement of EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Toivo Klaar, claiming that "the villages are not subject to territorial dispute."

“Such a statement can only be made if Azerbaijan accepts and is based on the maps of the Soviet Union. But since Azerbaijan does not accept any delineation map, on what basis does it claim that the villages are Azerbaijani and therefore not subject to territorial dispute?” he wrote.

As we reported earlier, Haji-zade, responding to Klaar’s statement from yesterday, said that the EU special representative for the South Caucasus sees