Azerbaijan will never agree to Karabakh's independence - Aliyev
BAKU. Jan 23 (Interfax) - Nagorno Karabakh will never be independent, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.
"The solution to the conflict is very simple. Firstly, Azerbaijan's territorial integrity should be restored. We will never permit the establishment of a second self-proclaimed Armenian state in the territory of Azerbaijan. Nagorno Karabakh will never get independence," Aliyev said on Monday at the opening of a new army cantonment in Absheron region.
He said nobody should hope for that. "Let nobody wait for it in vain, it won't happen," the president said.
Aliyev said that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijani land and this is precisely how the international community regards it.
He said that the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is coming closer with the strengthening of Azerbaijan.
He called the April 2016 armed clashes "a major historic victory of the Azerbaijani army."