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Gafan airport will remain as a museum exhibit, like Khojaly airport - Committee chairman of Azerbaijan Parliament

18 August 2023 17:36 (UTC +04:00)

"The current behavior of Armenia, which occupied Azerbaijan's lands for nearly 30 years, also shows that the current authorities and political circles in this country still do not want to accept that the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan should be respected. They still don't want to understand that a number of cross-border projects cannot be implemented without establishing relations based on international legal norms and principles and without reaching agreements with the neighboring state," Chairman of the Defense, Security, and Anti-Corruption Committee of the Milli Majlis Ziyafat Asgarov told APA.

Mr. Asgarov stated that opening Gafan airport is a unilateral provocative step, and it will not go unanswered: "Azerbaijan will not allow its airspace to be violated, therefore Gafan airport will face the fate of Khojaly airport, and Gafan airport will also remain as a museum exhibit. For the implementation of such cross-border projects, it is important for Armenia to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, to delimit and demarcate the borders, and at the next stage to conduct mutual consultations and reach agreements on cross-border projects. It is only after all this that we can talk about the implementation of cross-border projects."