KARABAKH WILL NEVER BE INDEPENDENT – PRESIDENT ALIYEV

Interfax
April 7 2009
Russia

Nagorno Karabakh will never gain independence, Azerbaijan President
Ilham Aliyev said.

"We hope that Armenia will finally have to put up with reality, and
the Karabakh conflict will be resolved," Aliyev said at a meeting of
the Azerbaijan Security Council on Monday.

"We are supporting it and we have demonstrated our constructiveness
and have proved our commitment to peaceful negotiations for 15 years
now, since the cease-fire was reached," the president added.

However, "the opponent must demonstrate constructiveness as well,"
he said.

"It should know that Nagorno Karabakh will never gain independence,
the international community will never recognize Nagorno Karabakh as
an independent state, and the Azeri people and the Azeri state will
never put up with this policy of occupation and ethnic cleansing,"
the president said.