Tert, Armenia
Nov 21 2009

Aliyev Threatens to Take Military Action if Meetings with Armenian
President are Unproductive
13:35 ¢ 21.11.09

If the meeting between Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s presidents on
November 22 in Munich is unproductive, the war in the region can
resume, announced Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, as reported by
Russian news agency Interfax.

According to the Azerbaijani president, by participating in the
negotiations on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Baku
`shows good intentions’ and `makes concessions.’

`If that meeting is unproductive, then all our hopes connected with
the negotiations will be exhausted and in that case, we will not have
another path. And we must ready for that [that is, liberation of
`Azerbaijani’ lands by military actions],’ Aliyev stated during his
tour to the Azerbaijani region Geranboyski.

`Of course, the work carried out in the sphere of military
construction over the last few years had a special purpose. We spend
billions, we purchase new weaponry [and] equipment, [and we] are
strengthening our positions on the contact line. We have full right of
liberating the lands through military action. The international law
stipulates it as our right,’ Azerbaijani president added.

Aliyev also stated that negotiations held over Nagorno-Karabakh until
now have been unproductive; therefore, the coming meeting in Munich is
decisive.

`In the near future, once again, my meeting with the Armenian
president will take place. These meetings are sometimes successful.
But sometimes the Armenian side drags time. The last few meetings, I
can say, haven’t entailed any results, since the Armenian side showed
an exceptionally non-constructive approach,’ the Azerbaijani president
said.

`And for what reason? It’s possible that the establishment process of
Armenia-Turkey relations encouraged them a little. They got the wrong
opinion, that Armenia-Turkey border will open and Nagorno-Karabakh
issue will be left aside. But the current processes show that that
won’t happen. Azerbaijan’s decisive position and Turkish public’s
decisive position, as well as Turkey’s leadership’s statements, show
that without the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Armenia-Turkey relations cannot be improved,’ says Aliyev, as quoted
by Azerbaijani news source AzerTac.