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Ilham Aliyev’s Victory Speech

Baku (Azerbaijan ) | 20 November 2020
Dear fellow countrymen,
I sincerely congratulate you on the liberation of Aghdam district. I heartily congratulate all the people of Aghdam. Dear people of Aghdam, you are no longer IDPs. You will return to your ancestral land.
The liberation of Aghdam district is the result of a trilateral statement signed on 10 November. I have repeatedly said that the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is possible both politically and militarily. We have been trying to (...)

Russian peace force to save Armenia

11 November 2020
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the deployment of a Russian peacekeeping force between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The complete ceasefire came into effect on 10 November 2020 at midnight .
It is a heavy defeat for the Armenians of Artsakh and of Armenia itself, who pay the price for having misunderstood the 2018 coup.
Armenia - whose prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, rose to power thanks to a "color revolution" sponsored by speculator George Soros - has been supported verbally by (...)

Statement by Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia

Moscow (Russia) | 10 November 2020
We, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, state the following:
1. A complete ceasefire and termination of all hostilities in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is declared starting 12:00 am (midnight) Moscow time on November 10, 2020. The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia, hereinafter referred to as the “Parties,” shall stop in their (...)

Pakistan covertly engaged on Azerbaijani side (Pashinyan)

30 October 2020
Pakistan has repeatedly denied reports, appearing in Azerbaijani and Turkish Facebook accounts, about Pakistani troops being mobilized to support the Azerbaijani army against the Armenians. However, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, interviewed by Indian television WION, and echoed by the Russian daily Kommersant , Pakistani jihadists were recruited at the start of the conflict from within the jihadi organizations used by the secret services against India (...)

Third Karabakh ceasefire breached

27 October 2020
The third ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, brokered in Washington this time, held for only one hour, on 26 October 2020. Entered into force at 8 a.m., it had already fallen through by 9 a.m. .
Like the previous ones, in Moscow and Paris on 10 and 18 October respectively, this one too seems to have been violated by Azerbaijan.
The Karabakh war started exactly one month ago, on 27 September. The OSCE “Minsk Group” is co-chaired by the United States, France and Russia. Each of these powers has (...)

According to Washington, it is Azerbaijan which not respecting ceasefire

26 October 2020
Interviewed by Face the Nation (CBS) on 25 October 2020, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien confirmed that Armenia had accepted the OSCE-imposed ceasefire, while Azerbaijan had still not committed to it.

Ilham Aliyev on Karabakh: “There will be no referendum, ever! "

23 October 2020
In an interview on 22 October 2020 with the Japanese daily Nikkei, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev explained that the Azerbaijanis have always respected the Armenians, insisting that it was the latter who perpetrated a genocide against the people of his country (sic), and not the reverse.
Referring to the right to self-determination of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been enshrined in the Madrid Principles, the newspaper asked him whether he approved of the (...)

Greece, Russia and Turkey readying for war over Nogorno-Karabakh

22 October 2020
On 21 October 2020, the Greek Navy mobilized around 60 boats to protect the Aegean Islands in the event of a Turkish attack.
Konstantin Zatulin, deputy chairman of the Russian Federation State Duma, alluded to a possible Russian landing in Azerbaijan to hunt down the jihadists. The Russian Navy has been engaged in exercises off Baku since 16 October.
Turkish Vice-President Fuat Oktay, on his part, has publicly considered a possible military intervention by his country to safeguard the (...)

Open letter by members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

22 October 2020
During the extermination of non-Muslim populations, Sultan Habdulhamid II (1894-95), then the Young Turks (1915-23), murdered 1.2 to 1.5 million people.
The Shushi Holy Savior (Ghazanchetsots) Cathedral, was severely damaged after two deliberate air raids conducted by the Azerbaijani military on October 8 and 9. This is not only a violation of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols, but also a (...)

Turkey braces for Russian response in Syria

21 October 2020
The Russian Foreign Ministry lined up several of its heavyweights to have them denounce the danger that the jihadi presence in Azerbaijan represents for Russia itself.
Turkey continues to deny having anything to do with it, yet it is gearing up for a Russian response in occupied northern Syria. She started evacuating her military post in Morek (Idlib governorate) while strengthening her presence in the other twelve bases.
Armenia, which until now, under the leadership of Prime Minister (...)

Turkish military presence in Azerbaijan

19 October 2020
According to the Russian daily Kommersant of 16 October 2020, 600 Turkish troops stayed behind in Azerbaijan after the joint military exercises that were held this summer .
This detachment comprises:
a tactical battalion group of 200 people,
50 instructors in Nakhijevan,
90 military advisers in Baku,
120 flight attendants at Gabala airport,
20 drone operators at Dollyar air base,
50 instructors at Evlakh airport,
50 instructors from the 4th Army Corps and 20 others at the (...)

Russia holds military exercise off Azerbaijan

16 October 2020
The Russian army began a military exercise on 16 October 2020 in the Caspian Sea, north of the Abşeron peninsula, near the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.
This "exercise" comprises six warships, seven aircraft and 400 special forces men.
Four of the ships, frigates Dagestan and Tatarstan and corvettes Uglich and Veliky Ustyug, are equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles.
These maneuvers do not pose a threat to neighbouring states, the Russian Defense Ministry pointed (...)

Karabagh: NATO supports Turkey while seeking to eliminate President Erdoğan

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 15 October 2020
In the Karabakh War, contemporary law is contradictory depending on whether it is interpreted in terms of ownership of the territory or the self-determination of the people. Taking advantage of this equivocation, the Turkish people (i.e., both Turkey and Azerbaijan) have just attacked this territory, self-proclaimed independent (Artsakh) although de facto linked to Armenia. Russia has already made it known that, according to the treaties, it will defend Armenia if it is attacked, but that its national security is not concerned by what is happening in Karabagh. Therefore, the only question is to establish whether Turkey has acted on the orders of the West, or whether it has taken an initiative that its own allies are likely to turn against it.

WSJ reports on jihadi traffic

14 October 2020
According to the Wall Street Journal of 14 October 2020, hundreds of "Syrian rebels" are on their way to Azerbaijan. Each will receive a salary 7 to 10 times higher than the average salary in Syria .
The departing rebels claim they want to serve Turkey, the only country which is still helping them.
Turkey has already funneled 5,000 jihadists from Syria into Libya and at least 1,000 more towards Azerbaijan. Several dozen of them have already died in Artsakh, as reported by the (...)

Israeli High Court rejects motion to ban arms sales to Azerbaijan

14 October 2020
Although the radar returns recorded by Flight24 reveal that two Azerbaijani military transport aircraft landed in Israel to load up cargo just before and just after the attack on Artsakh, the Israeli High Court considered that this did not prove that Israeli weapons were being used today against the Armenians .
While Amnesty International has testified that the Azerbaijani army deploys Israeli drones against Armenian civilians, the Israeli High Court decided that this did not prove they (...)

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