President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday he had achieved a decades-long "dream of Azerbaijani people" by taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic Armenia separatists.

"We achieved what we wanted. We fulfilled the dream the Azerbaijani people have lived with for decades," Aliyev said in a speech in Karabakh's main city. "We took back our lands," he said, adding that the country had "waited 20 years". for the moment.

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