YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan commented on another statement of Azerbaijan with which Baku denied the agreement reached in Washington regarding creating international mechanisms for the protection of rights and the security of Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh.

“There are things that cannot be denied because there are many factual data. The Armenian side was not the only one attending the negotiations. There was also the American side. There is a protocol about that, which the Azerbaijani side is aware of”, Grigoryan said in the Parliament today.

He said he is surprised to see that the fact is being denied.

“We will definitely continue working in order to understand what is the mechanism within the frames of which we will create conditions for the discussion to take place between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan about the security and rights of Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh”, Armen Grigoryan said.

He said that the Armenian side has noticed an interest by international partners to continue the works on this direction and expressed hope that this goal will be possible to achieve.

Earlier Grigoryan said that an agreement was reached in Washington to create an international mechanism so that Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan discuss the rights and security of Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, but added that so far there has been no clarity over that mechanism. After that Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev denied Grigoryan’s statement and claimed that “the issue of rights of Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijan’s internal affair, and they are not going to discuss it with any other country”.