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    Emil Lazarian
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Azerbaijan: We won’t accept status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh

Associated Press International
 Tuesday 5:26 PM GMT


Azerbaijan: We won't accept status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh

BAKU, Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Azerbaijan's president has boasted of the
country's military might and vowed to regain control over
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Speaking at Tuesday's military parade in Baku that featured an array
of new weapons, President Ilham Aliyev noted that "international law
doesn't work" and "force is a decisive factor." Aliyev pledged
adherence to peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but
added that international peace efforts have failed and "we won't
accept the status quo."

Nagorno-Karabakh is a region of Azerbaijan that has been under the
control of forces that claim to be local ethnic Armenians since a
separatist war ended in 1994. Azerbaijan claims the forces include
regular Armenian military.

Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan reacted to Aliyev's
speech by tweeting that "war mongering and saber rattling are
irrelevant, deplorable if not preposterous."
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS