Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry promised to ensure the withdrawal of the Armenian military from Karabakh by June, but this agreement has not yet been fulfilled.

He also added that in the 1 year and 8 months that have passed since the second Karabakh war, there are very few positive moments in the issue of normalizing Armenian-Azerbaijani relations..

“Unfortunately, there are more negative points. One of them is that Armenia is evading the fulfillment of the obligations stipulated in the declaration of November 10, 2020. Armenia, as a country that lost the war and signed the act of surrender, which is the mentioned declaration, assumed certain obligations. These obligations are clearly and clearly stated in the document. One of them is the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from Karabakh. But until this is done, Armenia is pulling with it,” Aliyev stressed..

He added that Azerbaijan raised this issue before the military leadership of the Russian Federation.. “High-level official of the Ministry of Defense” promised that the Armenian military would leave Karabakh by June.

“Armenia is not fulfilling its obligation. Russian peacekeepers... they are not forced to do this. Of course this is unacceptable.. We are a victorious country, we have restored our territorial integrity. If Armenia does not want to withdraw its troops from the territory of Azerbaijan, then let them speak frankly about it, we will know what to do in this case,” he stressed..

Aliyev did not specify what steps Azerbaijan would take, adding that "

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Recall that in 2020, the two-month-long war in Nagorno-Karabakh claimed the lives of more than 6.6 thousand. human.

The war ended with the signing of a ceasefire agreement mediated by Russia, Russian troops entered the line of confrontation.

On March 27, it was reported that the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan appealed to the Russian Federation with a demand to ensure the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

On May 3, opposition protests were held in Yerevan demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is accused of making concessions to Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement issue..