There is nothing better than peace, President Ilham Aliyev said during the opening ceremony of the 13th Global Baku Forum, APA reports.
“We were facing a situation when the United Nations Security Council's resolutions, which demanded the withdrawal of Armenian troops from our territories, remained on paper for almost 30 years. So this is an experience, but this is a bad experience.”
Then we had the experience of liberating our territory by force during the 44-day Patriotic War of 2020, and that also, I think, is an important indicator that when you lose any hope for a peaceful settlement, and when truth and justice and international law are on your side, you have to use force in order to achieve peace. And this is what happened. We achieved peace with Armenia by force and then by political means.
So this is also a unique experience in recent history, when I say recent, I mean decades, that the country itself, by force, restored its sovereignty and territorial integrity. And the third experience is the experience of peace — how to achieve peace. And this is not easy. We see that protracted conflicts continue, and new hotspots emerge on the global map.
In our case, the peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is also a unique situation, when the time from the last bloody clash in September 2023 to peace in August 2025 took less than two years. I think it's an unprecedented speed of normalization, and that was possible because of strong political will and because of understanding that there cannot be eternal hostility and that the war should end. And that was a choice made by two countries, and now we are, as I said, living in peace for seven months. And we see the advantages of that. I said many times, and I will not stop repeating it, that there is nothing better than peace,” the head of state noted.
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