He said Azerbaijan is interested in signing the peace agreement and conducting negotiations: ”But Armenia is feignedly protracting negotiations on the pretext of the upcoming presidential elections in Armenia. Our country has not refused the war, because it is our natural right. The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia may start at any moment, because there is no physical barrier.”
The head of the Center for Strategic Studies said that Azerbaijan doesn’t use upcoming presidential elections in 2013 as a pretext: “Because Azerbaijani people and the government have a common approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem."