This year is coming to an end. Many important events have taken place during the year. We had to carry out a military operation on the Azerbaijan-Armenia border. As a result of this military operation, the historically Azerbaijani cities are now visible to us, said President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting with a group of intellectuals from Western Azerbaijan, APA reports.
"We are already on the shores of Bala Goycha now. We can already see Lake Goycha without binoculars. First of all, I think it is only fair. Secondly, the September clashes will insure us against major problems in the future. Because revanchist forces are emerging in Armenia – it doesn’t matter to us whether they are in the government or in the opposition. Because the consciousness of Armenian society has been poisoned so badly and Azerbaijanophobia has become so widespread there that there is hardly anyone left there capable of thinking soberly – I am talking about the political area. This is why they are cherishing the idea of revenge. They are still hoping that someone will come and fight with us instead of them, while they, as always, will hide behind some patron to carry out their insidious plans against us," said the head of state.
The president said that in order to insure ourselves against this, we definitely had to secure more favorable positions in the direction of the Azerbaijan-Armenia border, and we achieved that.