President of Azerbaijan: “We have nothing against the Armenian residents of Karabakh, they are our citizens”

Her perspective of cooperation, reconciliation and development together its chairman suggested tonight Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to its Armenian inhabitants Nagorno Karabakh but also in neighboring Armenia, since his forces brought this mountainous enclave under control.

In his speech, broadcast on television, Mr Aliev said that Azerbaijan regained full sovereignty of its territories and now wishes to integrate the population of Karabakh and turn this region into a “paradise». Azerbaijan, he added, he has nothing against the Armenian residents of Karabakh – “they are our citizens“, he characteristically said – but only against the “criminal” leadership of the separatists.

Baku appreciates the fact that Armenia, on whose support Nagorno-Karabakh counted for three decades, did not seek to intervene in the Azeri military operation. This fact improves the prospects of peace talks, Aliyev said.

The Azeri president assured that the separatists began to surrender their armaments and abandon their military positionss, shortly after signing of the ceasefire agreement which ended the “lightning attack” on the enclave. He added that Azeri forces “destroyed most” of the separatist forces and their equipment and “restored national sovereignty” in the area.

Source: News Beast

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