Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended in National Security Council in Khankendi. During the meeting, he noted that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic should participate as a party to the negotiation process.

Pashinyan stated that Armenia is a security guarantor of Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Armenia can't participate in the name of Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

The spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva reacted to the statement of Prime Minister of Armenia, Trend reports.

"I can say that everything is being put in its right place,” she said. “If the Armenian prime minister holds an extraordinary meeting of his country's Security Council in Azerbaijan’s occupied Khankendi city, then there is no need to make efforts to involve the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of our country in the negotiations. The prime minister, who voiced the idea of "Karabakh Armenians", put an end to the word game, saying that the Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh region are the Armenian community, rather than the "nation".”

She also urges Armenia to peace and to stop the occupation.

"As the prime minister stated, he won the confidence of the Armenian people and, thus, obtained a full mandate,” she said. “Having shown political will, now it is time for him to clearly demonstrate his interest in bringing peace, progress and sustainable development to the region. It is obvious that a party interested in ensuring peace and tranquillity will not occupy the territory of other country.”