ILHAM ALIYEV SPEAKS OF PEACE, BUT PREPARES FOR WAR

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13. ARMINFO. Within the current year, the expenses
for defense in Azerbaijan will be increased 76% and next year they
ill be increased at least as much as in 2005. Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev made this statement, Azerbaijani Mass Media reports.

“We live in conditions of war. We wage negotiations, aspire for
peace settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. But the enemy is
to be aware that we are able to liberate our lands at any moment,”
the president says. In his words, to achieve this, a powerful military
potential is to be created and the work in this direction is evident.

“We must use the process of negotiations till the very end. If
there is hope fore peace settlement of the issue, we must use all the
opportunities. However, if we see that the peace way brings no effect,
a new situation will originate then and we together with the people
will make a necessary decision,” Ilham Aliyev says.