The chairman of Azerbaijan International Research Center, Farid Shafiyev made statement in his social network about upgrading Armenia as " peaceful country" by the Institute of Economics and Peace in its recent Global Peace Index. 

Farid Shafiyev noted that the Institute maybe do not have information about the occupation of internationally recognized territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan by Armenia. 

"I wonder whether the authors of the report are aware that Armenia not only continues the occupation of Azerbaijani internationally recognized territories, but during 2019 for which CSM ranked the country "the most peaceful", Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other cabinet members used highly controversial belligerent rhetoric which was jettisoned by the Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group (France, Russia and the US) dealing with peaceful resolution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict," said Shafiyev. 

"Prime Minister Pashinyan's statement voiced on 5 August 2019 during the visit to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan - "Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenia" is nothing more than the declaration of annexation of the territory of neighboring country in violation of four resolutions of the UN Security Council (822,853, 874, 884)," he added

Farid Shafiyev also said that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan's past moves seem big obstacles to peace.

"It is worth to recall that one of Pashinyan’s first moves in his official position was to send his son to serve in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and it can hardly be seen as a gesture of peace. Armenia's Minister of Defence David Tonoyan, speaking to the Armenian diaspora in New York on 30 March 2019 declared a new "defence" concept - “new war for new territories” which unlikely meet the criteria of a peace message. And the list can continue up until the recent highly provocative visit of Prime Minister Pashinyan to historic Azerbaijani city of Shusha on 21 May 2020 to participate in so-called inauguration in the aftermath of illegal elections condemned by the international community," Shafiyev stressed.