Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stated that relations with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, as well as between the administrations of the two presidents, are constructive and friendly.
SİA informs via AZERTAC that Aliyev made the statement in an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya.
The head of state said that regarding Iran's official position on the new events, Azerbaijan considers it very reasonable and very positive.
"When I say official position, I mean the position of the president and the foreign minister. This is the official position," he said.
"Well, we are basing our policy on those politicians who have been elected by the people of Iran and have a mandate to implement their duties. And this is the president. There have been certain voices of some former officials, who are now named as advisors. I don't know what kind of advice they give. This position is not important to us at all. It has zero importance because our interstate relations are between the governments, between the presidents, and between the foreign ministers. Therefore, we totally ignore these false narratives, which have been articulated by so-called advisors," Aliyev added.
"For us, everything is clear. The position of the president is absolutely reasonable and is based on the fact that the Zangazur Corridor is not in any way a threat to Iran," he said.
According to President Aliyev, there have been a lot of rumors in some media and on some internet sites that Azerbaijan is planning to occupy Zangazur, or that Azerbaijan is planning to cut the Iranian-Armenian border: "That was absolutely false. We had no such intention. Again, if we wanted to do it, we would have done it in November 2020. It was very easy to do, and throughout all these five years, it was very easy to do. It's only 40 kilometers. From a military point of view, it would not take much time. From both sides — from Nakhchivan and from the mainland — you could take it. And even those who give bad advice know that we have this power. We didn't do it because we are not aggressors. We are not a country that occupies. We are a people and a country that liberates, and that's what we've done. And our war was a just war, a liberation war, a war on our soil, and a war of restoration of justice."
He called all the rumors that Azerbaijan was planning to cut the Armenian-Iranian border absolutely groundless: "Everybody knows that. By the way, during these five years when Armenia was blocking the opening of the Zangezur corridor, we agreed with the Iranian government, again, government to government, to build a bypass on Iranian territory, and it was called the Araz corridor, named after the river Araz. Azerbaijan has already invested a lot of money in building the bridge over the Araz river to bypass Armenia. If you look at the map, you'll see it's not difficult to do. You just come to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and then make a turn to the left, build a bridge across the river and go 40 kilometers on Iranian territory and then enter Nakhchivan again. This project is already in the implementation phase. So when the corridor through Armenia is opened, we will have two ways. We will have more opportunities to deliver cargo: one way through Iran, and another way through Armenia. We also discussed with our Iranian colleagues from the government that there may be a necessity to build a railroad on the Iranian side of the river. If that happens, if Iran does it, then part of the cargo will go through Iran."
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