Head of the Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan Grigory Ayvazyan, who earlier decided to run for president of Azerbaijan, intends to meet with the single opposition candidate for president of Azerbaijan Rustam Ibragimbekov in Moscow to discuss cooperation issues, Ayvazyan told media on 8 August.
He said the two presidential contenders have a common desire and aspiration to get rid of Ilham Aliyev's dictatorship. In addition, Ayzavyan, as a representative of the Armenian community, thinks that involvement of Armenians in the public and political life of Azerbaijan is legitimate and necessary.
"If Azerbaijani Central Electoral Committee refuses to register me as a candidate for president, it will be a political decision, which will not stop me, however, on the way to my goal," Ayvazyan said.
He is sure that successful cooperation with Rustam Ibragimov's team will make closer the Armenian and Azerbaijani peoples in future through creation of common mechanism of peaceful co-existence.
"Actually, Ilham Aliyev's policy of xenophobia leads the multi-national Azerbaijan to a collapse and healthy political forces in that country are well aware of that. Consequently, we have a good opportunity to cooperate to avoid further aggravation of the situation," Ayvazyan said.
He informed media that he had already sent his documents to Azerbaijan a few days ago for registration as a candidate for president. Ayvazyan said he was ready to visit Baku and fight for the post of the president despite possible obstacles.