Azerbaijani President and First Lady attend opening ceremony of Third Congress of World Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijani President and First Lady attend opening ceremony of Third Congress of World Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva have attended the opening ceremony of the Third Congress of World Azerbaijanis in Baku today.
The Azerbaijani President spoke at the ceremony.

Ensuring Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is one of the major issues facing the country, President Ilham Aliyev told at the World Azerbaijani Congress in Baku.

He was referring to the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts which remain occupied by Armenian forces.

President Aliyev said that Azerbaijan would use all factors, including the military, to ensure its territorial integrity, SIA Reported.

He noted in his speech to the congress that international organizations had passed resolutions on the Karabakh problem, which remained unfulfilled because of what he described as Armenia’s "unconstructive position".

"Yerevan has to understand that Azerbaijan’s potential cannot be compared with Armenia’s capability. Azerbaijan’s economic potential is ten times greater than Armenia’s economic potential. Armenia has no power to compete with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s military expenditure is 50 percent more than Armenia’s budget," the president said, echoing remarks made in his speech at a military parade on 26 June, Armed Forces Day.

The head of state stressed in his address that international legal norms also supported Azerbaijan’s position on resolution of the conflict.

He said that a settlement was in the interests of both Azerbaijan and Armenia.

"The mediating countries also state that the status quo is inadmissible. Azerbaijan will continue the negotiations. Armenia knows very well that they are guests in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenian state was established in historical Azerbaijani land – Irevan and Zangazur. The Turkic world was geographically separated, as Zangazur was given to Armenia."

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