ArmInfo. Karabakh is Azerbaijan, and an exclamation mark. This was stated at the plenary session of the meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
He recalled that one of the topics of ongoing discussion is the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "Russia is a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, which has a mediation mandate. I must note that for more than 25 years, Nagorno-Karabakh and the other 7 regions of Azerbaijan have been under Armenian occupation. Nagorno-Karabakh is originally Azerbaijani land. In Soviet times, Nagorno-Karabakh was created Karabakh Autonomous Oblast: I must say that in connection with the conflict there is a fairly wide range of opinions, often not reflecting realities, and so, in order to clarify, I must say that it was resolved in 1921 e Caucasian Bureau was, literally, leave Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and not tell you how often it interprets the Armenian side, "- said Aliyev.
After conducting a historical discourse on Artsakh's affiliation, Aliyev again reminded of internally displaced persons, supposedly destroying the cultural values of Azerbaijan in the NKR, of not fulfilling UN Security Council resolutions. "We in Azerbaijan are concerned about the selective nature of the implementation of the resolutions. Sometimes they are implemented within days, sometimes they are not needed at all for certain military operations. In our case, the resolutions remain on paper. The resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be within the territorial Azerbaijan's integrity, adopted by the whole world of the UN Charter, UN Security Council resolutions and the Helsinki Final Act, I must say that recently the Prime Minister of Armenia often says that about the resolution of the conflict should be acceptable for the people of Azerbaijan, the people of Armenia and the "people" of Nagorno-Karabakh. So, I must say that the concept of "the people of Nagorno-Karabakh" does not exist. There is a population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which before the conflict consisted of Azerbaijani and Armenian populations, having equal rights, "Aliyev said.
As for which solution is acceptable for Azerbaijan, Aliyev continued, it consists in "restoring the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan", recognized by the whole world, returning refugees and internally displaced persons to their "ancestral lands, including in Nagorno-Karabakh."
Then, Aliyev accused Armenia of military aggression. "I would also like to touch on the statement of the Prime Minister of Armenia, which was surprising not only in Azerbaijan, but the corresponding reaction was also given by the Russian Federation within the framework of the Valdai Forum. So, the statement is almost verbatim:" Karabakh is part of Armenia. And that's the point>. Well, first of all, this is, to put it mildly, a lie. Karabakh is recognized by the whole world as an integral part of Azerbaijan. Armenia itself does not recognize this illegal formation. Karabakh is historical, original Azerbaijani land. So Karabakh is Az And rbaydzhan exclamation>, Aliyev concluded.