POLITICS
President: Nagorno-Karabakh cannot have any legal status without Azerbaijan`s consent
Baku, July 15 (AZERTAC). “Nagorno-Karabakh cannot have any legal status without Azerbaijan`s consent,” President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting of the Cabinet to discuss outcomes of the socio-economic development in the first half of 2011.
“This is why I have repeatedly stated in the past and want to say today that alienation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan, provision of Nagorno-Karabakh with independence or its joining to Armenia has never been and will never be a subject of negotiations. Neither the government nor the people of Azerbaijan will ever accept this.”
The Head of State noted Azerbaijan had clearly demonstrated a constructive approach. “And we are ready to demonstrate it today too, on the basis of the principles I have described. All Azerbaijani citizens must return to the areas that are currently under occupation. After that, there can be peace.”