Continuing its policy of turning everything upside down, Azerbaijan promotes the idea of its being the "victim" by presenting Armenia as the "aggressor."
“Azerbaijan's proposals are known to Armenia. The Armenian society must also change politically, psychologically, and accept peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.” Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to Azerbaijani president, stated this at a press conference, APA reports.
"If such a peace treaty was signed between France and Germany after the Second World War, why shouldn't it be signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia? We call on the international community to mobilize efforts in this regard," Hajiyev added, obviously comparing Armenia with Germany.
According to him, before the 44-day Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) war last fall, it was “very difficult” for him to “speak at foreign events as a representative of a losing country."
The assistant to the president of Azerbaijan noted that there is a problem in the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and these relations must be changed.
"It is necessary to sign a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the [two] countries must recognize each other's territorial integrity, sovereignty," Hajiyev stressed.
According to him, Armenia's lawsuits against Azerbaijan show that Armenia does not recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
"This must end. Armenia must renounce its territorial ambitions towards Azerbaijan," he added.
At the same time, Hajiyev stressed that Armenia's intention to create another Armenian state in the South Caucasus has failed.
Thus, distorting history and reality, Azerbaijan is attempting—through blackmail and threats—to force the Armenian side to recognize its territorial integrity, but forgetting that Nagorno-Karabakh was not part of Azerbaijan at the time of the collapse of the ex-USSR and the declaration of independence of Azerbaijan in the early 1990s.
Also, Hikmet Hajiyev did not mention the Armenian captives whom Azerbaijan has refused to release for more than a year now, its war crimes, the captured Armenians—including the elderly and women—, the destruction of Armenian cultural monuments, the actual causes of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the military aggression Azerbaijan had unleashed against Artsakh.