Baku Announces: Pashinyan Refuses to Meet Aliyev in London

According to the Azerbaijani side, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has refused to meet with President Ilham Aliyev in London. Hikmet Hajiyev, the assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, stated to reporters that the meeting was proposed by the British side. Previously, neither party had officially announced the possibility of such a meeting.

“The refusal of the Armenian Prime Minister to meet is a retreat from the peace agenda,” Hajiyev said. There has not yet been an official response from the Armenian side.