Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed today that the planned meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on October 5 in Granada, Spain, will not take place.
The planned meeting on the sidelines of the European Political Community’s gathering was to be attended also by European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron.
"We were very positive about the meeting because we believed that there would be a possibility of signing a key document and de facto until this morning we considered this probability high. This is the document that the puppet opposition in Armenia tried by any means to present as 'disastrous," Pashinyan said.
According to him, since the opposition failed and Armenia did not succumb to these manipulations, and expressed a clear constructive position and made its views clear, it became clear that the planned meeting with Aliyev would not take place.
At the same time, Pashinyan added that the Armenian delegation will still go to Granada and hold meetings.
"We hope that the conceptual document that is on the table will be signed at a convenient moment. I am ready to sign this agreement and I regret that tomorrow there will be no occasion to inform that an important decision has been made," he said.
According to Azerbaijani mass media reports, Aliyev thought better of meeting with Pashinyan because of France's "destructive position." He also wanted that Turkish president Erdogan also took part in the meeting but this demand was opposed by France and Germany, ARKA reports.
