The Financial, Georgia
Dec 26 2007

Azerbaijani President: Armenians will never achieve separation of
Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan

26/12/2007 11:21

The FINANCIAL — According to APA, we receive full political support
of the world community in the solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in the interview to Channel-4
of Moldova, APA reports quoting AzerTaj State Agency.

President said that the world community, as well as the European
Union and OSCE Minsk Group supports settlement of this conflict in
the framework of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

`The entire world community, as well as UN recognizes territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and this issue is not the theme of our
negotiations. EU gives us political and moral support and it has been
reflected in the document we signed with EU on New Neighborhood
Policy. This is another issue that this support has not yet resulted
in the elimination of the results of the ethnic cleansing carried out
by Armenia against Azerbaijan, return of refugees and IDPs to their
native lands and practical implementation of measures on the
settlement of the conflict. Political and diplomatic statements are
not enough here,’ he said.

The head of the state said that Armenia ignores the challenges of the
world community.

`Unfortunately, aggressive state Armenia still ignores the challenges
of the world community to behave as in the 21st century, not as in
the Middle Ages. Armenians’ approach to the issue is characteristic
of the Middle Ages. This way leads to uncertainty. Aggressive Armenia
will never achieve separation of Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan,
world community will never recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an
independent state and Azerbaijan will never agree to it. The ways of
the solution are visible and these ways are the same for all
countries, as well as Moldova. The problems we face are aggressive
separatism. The roots, causes and unfortunately the results of the
problems of Nagorno Karabakh, Transdnestria, Abkhazia and South
Ossetia are the same. That is why they should be solved in the
framework of the international legal principles. I hope that healthy
thinking will prevail in Armenia and Armenians will understand the
current situation, realities of the international practice and change
in the balance of forces in the region,’ he said.