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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his wife toured the lands that their country recovered from Armenia in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region between the two countries. “There will be no status (of autonomy) for Karabakh,” he said, adding that “Azerbaijan is a united country.” Vladimir Putin, for his part, considered that the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan allows laying the foundations for “permanent normalization” in Nagorno-Karabakh even if the “problem” of the status of this region is not resolved.
Staged head Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva on Monday toured the lands their country recovered from Armenia in Nagorno Karabakh region.
Cheering crowds greeted them during their tour of the Jebrayel and Fizuli regions, where they appeared in military uniforms in photos and videos broadcast by the Azerbaijani presidency on Tuesday.
“There will be no (autonomous) status for Karabakh. Azerbaijan is a united country,” Aliyev said as he drove an Azerbaijani-made Azirkan armored vehicle on the roads of Fizuli. He added that the Armenians “destroyed everything here and will be held accountable in international courts.”
He said: “Look what the evil enemy did to the city of Jebrayel. His goal was that the Azerbaijanis will never come back here. But we will live here. We have returned to our land.”
His wife, who is the first vice president of the oil-rich country, gave him a kiss while taking a selfie on his phone.
The couple took photos in front of the medieval Khedivrin Bridge on the country’s border with Iran, which has been under the control of Armenian separatists for almost three decades.
Baku was signed Yerevan Last week, a peace deal brokered by Moscow ended six weeks of fighting in Nagorno Karabakh, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands displaced.
Below the agreement Celebrated by Azerbaijan and arousing anger in Armenia, Yerevan agreed to cede large swaths of the disputed area in favor of Baku, as well as other lands that Armenian separatists have controlled since the devastating war in the 1990s.
For his part, he took it Russian president Vladimir Putin said that the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan allows to lay the foundations of “permanent normalization” in Nagorno Karabakh, even if the “problem” of the state of this region is not resolved.
Putin told Russian public television: “Simply ceasing hostilities and reaching an agreement to open all means of transport and restore economic relations, this is very important and constitutes a good basis for the normalization of long-term relations.” .
Putin acknowledged that “the final status in Nagorno-Karabakh has not been resolved” and that the agreement signed last week between Yerevan and Baku only contributes to “preserving the situation as it is” in the vicinity of the region disputed for decades.
France 24 / AFP
