MP: Azerbaijan not to leave even inch of its land under occupation
By Rashid Shirinov
Armenia has big patrons – this is the reason for the delay of resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijani MP Elman Mammadov made the remark while talking to Trend, further clarifying that they supply weapons, finance and provide political support to the aggressor Armenia.
He said that the patrons of Armenia aim, through putting pressure on Azerbaijan, to achieve the solution in favor of the Armenians, but not a fair settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“Therefore, anti-Azerbaijan campaigns are carried out, and pressure is put on us. The goal is to take Nagorno-Karabakh away from Azerbaijan and give it to Armenia. But as national leader Heydar Aliyev said and today the President Ilham Aliyev says, we will not give the enemy a single inch of land,” Mammadov stressed.
The emphasized that Azerbaijanis will never give its land to the enemy, as Azerbaijan is a strong state that at any moment can liberate its lands from occupation through a military force.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Armenia still controls fifth part of Azerbaijan's territory and rejects implementing four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.
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