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Azerbaijani town of Shusha, populated before occupation in
May 1992 almost entirely by Azerbaijanis. This town, because
of its special place in Azerbaijan’s history, is extremely dear
to every Azerbaijani and is part of our national identity. So,
Armenian leadership announced plans to transfer the so-
called parliament in Nagorno Karabakh from Khankendi
(Stenaparket), to Shusha.
Next in my list comes intensification lately of the illegal
settlement of ethnic Armenians from the Middle East and
other regions of the world in the occupied territories, in gross
violation of International humanitarian law (IHL), namely of
the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.
In addition, they carried out three armed attacks on our unfortunately, joined the list of Kocharian and Sargsyan, his
territories in July, August and September this year. predecessors who committed the Khojaly genocide in 1992
As I mentioned above, on 12 July 2020 Azerbaijani border and all of them shall one day be held responsible for their
district of Tovuz, located 200 km away from the Karabakh, crimes against humanity.
came under fire from the territory of Armenia. This was
done to provoke Azerbaijan to retaliate and hit the territory We hear that Turkey is sending you military personnel, and
of Armenia so that Yerevan could immediately appeal for mercenaries. Is this true?
intervention of Russia and other allies of Armenia within Let me tell you that this is purely fake news and part of the
the framework of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty vast disinformation campaign impudently launched by
Organization) on the side of Armenia. Azerbaijan rebuffed Armenia in order to cover up its deployment of thousands of
the attack with due proportion and chose not to advance terrorists, mercenaries and foreign fighters from the Middle
inside the Armenian territory since we have never had any East, Europe and other regions to the occupied territories.
military targets or objectives in the territory of Armenia. All Unfortunately, no one from those who voiced these baseless
these provocations were enriched by increased transfers of allegations against Azerbaijan took the labor of presenting
weapons and other military equipment to Armenia from third us at least one single evidence. On the other hand, we have
countries right after the July border incident and throughout intelligence reports from several sources that PKK terrorists
August 2020. and Armenian nationals of some European and Middle
Military build-up, among other actions by Armenia, signaled East countries are engaged on the battlefield on the side of
about their preparation for another provocation, another large Armenia.
scale attack. We were ready for this and when it happened on
27 September we immediately launched a counter offensive. What about United Nations peacekeepers -- do you think that
might be a solution?
Since September 27, there has been a full-fledged war between I believe it is a bit too early to talk about the deployment of
Armenia and Azerbaijan. What exactly happened that day? peacekeepers because active combat activities are still going
On 27 September, the Armenian armed forces attacked on. Armenia rejected two attempted humanitarian cease-
Azerbaijan frontline districts adjacent to NK from three fires and Prime minister Pashinian openly stated that there
directions – south, south-east and the north. This was the could not be any diplomatic solution to the conflict. So, the
third biggest attack this year. As I said, we anticipated such issue of peacekeepers may be considered at a much later stage
an offensive given Armenia’s embittered war rhetoric and when all the other necessary elements of the peace settlement
provocations in the last few months. Azerbaijan, in its turn, are in place.
launched a counter offensive in the course of which an
important part of the occupied territory has been liberated by Finally, your Excellency, the United Nations and many other
our army. Unfortunately, Armenia, losing on the battlefield, in actors have called for cease-fire and resumption of the talks.
violation of international humanitarian law, started targeting Do you think this will happen soon?
civilian population and infrastructure on the frontline This may happen even tomorrow, at least Azerbaijan is ready
districts in order to create panic among our population and to resume talks as soon as possible. But, as they say, it takes
render the maximum possible loss of human life. Even our two to tango and, unfortunately, most recent statement by
big cities like Ganja (second biggest city of the country) and Armenian Prime minister excluding any possibility of a
Mingechevir situated far away from the zone of conflict came diplomatic resolution of the conflict is a bad sign. For talks
under numerous cowardly night-time ballistic missile attacks to resume, Armenia has to stop its illegal military activities in
from the territory of Armenia. As a result of these heinous our occupied territories and commit itself publicly that it will
war crimes of Armenian political and military leadership 63 withdraw its armed forces from all the occupied territories
Azerbaijani civilians were killed (including 10 children), 292 of Azerbaijan, as it is demanded by four resolutions of the
were wounded, some 1950 houses were fully destroyed. By United Nations Security Council, by international law and by
commanding this war crime Prime minister Pashinian has, the common sense.

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