AZERBAIJAN’S MILITARY POWER TO URGE ARMENIA WITHDRAW FROM LANDS – LEADER

Turan News Agency
March 4 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku, 4 March: "Azerbaijan’s military budget amounts to 1.3bn dollars
and it will be increasing further. Weare purchasing military equipment,
aircraft, and ammunition to be prepared to liberate the occupied
territories and weare ready for this," Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev said, speaking today at a ceremony of handing over a16-apartment
block in Xanlar District [western Azerbaijan] to veterans, the disabled
of the Karabakh war and thefamilies of martyrs.

Aliyev noted that the conflict will see its peaceful resolution when
Armenians will perceive Azerbaijan’s power.The conflict can be settled
within the framework of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity only. "Time
will comewhen Armenians will agree to this," Aliyev noted.

He added that only diplomatic means were not enough to settle
the conflict. "You see that norms of internationallaw are being
violated in the world and it negatively affects the settlement of the
conflict. Factor of power remains tobe decisive and we will achieve
this," Aliyev said.