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Azerbaijan Wants Peaceful Relations with Neighbors – Aliyev Assures

AZERBAIJAN WANTS PEACEFUL RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES< ALIYEV ASSURES 31.03.2005 04:48 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ `The Armenian solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a dream,' President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated at a meeting with students of Warsaw University in Poland. As PanARMENIAN.Net got to know from own sources, Aliyev stated that `the only true option of solving the problem in compliance with the international law is that proposed by Azerbaijan.' `Armenians let Azeri refugees return to Karabakh, Azerbaijan provides wide autonomy to Karabakh within the borders of Azerbaijan, as well as security guarantees, which will allow Karabakh to enhance the level of economy, and Armenia should refuse the occupied territories,' Aliyev noted. `Armenia istrying to build its own state at the expense of the others. What if Armenians had tried to get the states, where they live - and there are many,' he emphasized. As noted by Al iyev, `Nagorno Karabakh is a historical Azeri land and has never been Armenian.' `Armenians were moved there from Turkey and Iran in the 19-th century,' he added. To confirm his words Aliyev cited the fact that the word `Karabakh' means nothing in Armenian, while in Azerbaijani it `large garden.' As noted by the Azeri President, when the issue of borders was decided after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was decided from the point of view of history, and at that time 75% of Karabakh population were Armenians, while 25% were Azerbaijanis. `After the collapse of the Soviet Union a separatist movement appeared in Karabakh, which resulted in 1 million refugees in Azerbaijan today and occupation of 20% of the territory by Armenia,' he stated. At that Aliyev said he hoped for the Nagorno Karabakh problem to be solved within the Council of Europe framework.

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