Azerbaijani leader warns Armenia against territorial demands over Karabakh
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan’s president warned Armenia on Thursday against making territorial claims from Karabakh, a region liberated from nearly three decades of Armenian occupation in 2020.
“If Armenia continues to question the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan will have no other choice and will question the territorial integrity of Armenia,” he said.
Doing so would be a “useless and dangerous approach” for Armenia, said Aliyev, asserting that “the government of Armenia should understand this and stop trying to rewrite history.”
The Azerbaijani president also argued that Baku, on the other hand, had historical grounds to call the territory of Armenia into question.
Relations between the two ex-Soviet countries have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.
New clashes erupted in September 2020, and a 44-day conflict saw Azerbaijan liberate several cities and over 300 settlements and villages that were occupied by Armenia for almost 30 years.
A tripartite agreement was brokered by Russia to bring an end to the war in November 2020.
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