On January 16, 2003 Robert Kocharian said that Azerbaijanis and Armenians were "ethnically incompatible" and it was impossible for the Armenian population of Karabakh to live within an Azerbaijani state.
2003年1月16日，時任亞美尼亞總統羅伯特·科恰良指阿塞拜疆人和亞美尼亞人「種族不相容」，而納戈爾諾-卡拉巴赫的亞美尼亞人內的不可能在阿塞拜疆共和國生活。