Tokyo, 25 December, /AJMEDIA/
“The developments on the Lachin road are clear as day. This is our legitimate right. Our natural resources are being exploited and our natural resources are being transported. Those exploiting our natural resources are criminals according to any international legal norm,” said President Ilham Aliyev in a meeting with a group of intellectuals from Western Azerbaijan.
“This is our territory recognized by the international community, and we have a legitimate demand for our public representatives, first of all, representatives of state bodies, to be able to conduct monitoring there. They should see what is going on there and demand that all illegal activity be stopped. This is our legitimate demand,” the head of state emphasized.
“However, this situation is being presented in a completely distorted manner. There are lies again, there is slander again, and we all know who is doing that. Let me say again that the state of Armenia is not in the foreground here. But this will not deter us from anything. We have already proven this many times – the second Karabakh war and the two years after the war have shown this. No-one can influence us. There may be calls, there may be some statements, but we don’t need to pay attention to them. We answer these calls simply out of political courtesy, but this will not change our position in the slightest,” the Azerbaijani President noted.
