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MORE RHETORIC: ALIYEV SAYS AZERBAIJAN TO CELEBRATE VICTORY IN KARABAKH "SOON"
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/40738/ilham_aliyev_karabakh_azerbaijan
Karabakh | 01.11.12 | 12:14
Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity and celebrate its
victory in the Karabakh standoff soon, said the country's president
Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday in unveiling a monument, in Baku, to a
prominent Karabakh-born Azeri folk music performer.
Aliyev stressed that Azerbaijan was "drawing closer" to victory with
each day due to its "increasing might" and "growing influence in the
international arena".
"We are prepared for any variant [of settling the Karabakh conflict].
We will never allow a second Armenian state to be established in our
ancient Azeri land," said the Azerbaijani leader at the ceremony
honoring Bulbul (1897-1961), a native of a village near Shushi in
Karabakh.
Aliyev said that monuments to Bulbul and other cultural figures
of Azerbaijan would also be re-inaugurated in Shushi and elsewhere
in Karabakh after the "restoration of territorial integrity". "The
national flag of Azerbaijan will flutter in Shushi," he concluded.
The Azeri leader's renewed war rhetoric comes on the heels of the
first internationally mediated talks in months between the foreign
ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After that meeting in Paris on
October 27, the troika of Minsk Group peace brokers announced their
scheduled visit to the region later this month to try to kick-start
the stalled negotiation process with some unspecified new ideas.
Armenia has routinely scoffed at the threats from Azerbaijan to
resolve the Karabakh conflict militarily, saying, at the same time,
that Karabakh's status within Azerbaijan is out of the question.
"The leader of Azerbaijan continues to make statements that have
nothing to do with the reality," Deputy Speaker of the Armenian
Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said on Thursday, commenting on Aliyev's
most recent remarks.
The two South Caucasus neighbors locked in a bitter dispute over
Karabakh came close to renewed fighting last summer in the wake
of several major border skirmishes resulting in loss of life on
both sides.
Yerevan and Baku have also paraded their military capabilities in
several war games staged in the volatile region during the past year
or so, threatening to overwhelm each other in the event of renewed
hostilities.
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/40738/ilham_aliyev_karabakh_azerbaijan
Karabakh | 01.11.12 | 12:14
Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity and celebrate its
victory in the Karabakh standoff soon, said the country's president
Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday in unveiling a monument, in Baku, to a
prominent Karabakh-born Azeri folk music performer.
Aliyev stressed that Azerbaijan was "drawing closer" to victory with
each day due to its "increasing might" and "growing influence in the
international arena".
"We are prepared for any variant [of settling the Karabakh conflict].
We will never allow a second Armenian state to be established in our
ancient Azeri land," said the Azerbaijani leader at the ceremony
honoring Bulbul (1897-1961), a native of a village near Shushi in
Karabakh.
Aliyev said that monuments to Bulbul and other cultural figures
of Azerbaijan would also be re-inaugurated in Shushi and elsewhere
in Karabakh after the "restoration of territorial integrity". "The
national flag of Azerbaijan will flutter in Shushi," he concluded.
The Azeri leader's renewed war rhetoric comes on the heels of the
first internationally mediated talks in months between the foreign
ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After that meeting in Paris on
October 27, the troika of Minsk Group peace brokers announced their
scheduled visit to the region later this month to try to kick-start
the stalled negotiation process with some unspecified new ideas.
Armenia has routinely scoffed at the threats from Azerbaijan to
resolve the Karabakh conflict militarily, saying, at the same time,
that Karabakh's status within Azerbaijan is out of the question.
"The leader of Azerbaijan continues to make statements that have
nothing to do with the reality," Deputy Speaker of the Armenian
Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said on Thursday, commenting on Aliyev's
most recent remarks.
The two South Caucasus neighbors locked in a bitter dispute over
Karabakh came close to renewed fighting last summer in the wake
of several major border skirmishes resulting in loss of life on
both sides.
Yerevan and Baku have also paraded their military capabilities in
several war games staged in the volatile region during the past year
or so, threatening to overwhelm each other in the event of renewed
hostilities.