Azerbaijan and Armenia mark their red line in the “Karabakh” conflict … what is it?

The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, confirmed in a special statement to the Russian agency “Sputnik” that the “red line” for Azerbaijan is not to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, and stressed that under no circumstances may territorial integrity be violated. of Azerbaijan.

“We have made this very clear, and the co-chairs of the Minsk group are aware,” Aliyev said. Well, in no case can the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan be violated, and under no circumstances will Azerbaijan accept the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. ”

Aliyev emphasized in his remarks that there are no “mercenaries” from Syria and Libya fighting on the side of Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh, “and there is no evidence of that,” adding: “No one has provided us with any evidence of the existence of foreign armed formations. on the territory of Azerbaijan, which they claim are participating. ” In the current confrontations “.

For his part, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, stated in a parallel interview with the director general of the international news agency “Russia Sigodnia”, that “there is that (red) line, and this line is the right of the people to Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination. “

Pashinyan added: “Armenia has always been ready for such an arrangement, and the most famous initiative was the Kazan initiative, as Armenia was ready to offer a concrete compromise, but Azerbaijan refused to sign these agreements because it did not want and will not accept the right. from Armenians to Nagorno Karabakh in Self-Determination “.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also stressed that Armenia’s “red line” in the conflict with Azerbaijan is “the right of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination, and that this cannot be abandoned.”

This accused the adviser to the president of the Nagorno Karabakh region, David Babayan, in an interview للميادينTurkey stated that it “provoked the conflict in the region and brought in terrorists”, adding that the authorities in the region have “a lot of evidence and records proving Turkey’s interference in the battles, which French President Emmanuel Macron has seen.”

Yesterday, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Leila Abdulayeva said that “for two years, Armenia has carried out a series of military provocations against Azerbaijan.”

And in a conversation with her Fields Abd Allayeva noted that the military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh “will continue and we have liberated some villages,” noting that “Azerbaijan is still open for negotiations.”