Associated Press International
 Tuesday 5:26 PM GMT
Azerbaijan: We won't accept status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh
BAKU, Azerbaijan
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Azerbaijan's president has boasted of the
country's military might and vowed to regain control over
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Speaking at Tuesday's military parade in Baku that featured an array
of new weapons, President Ilham Aliyev noted that "international law
doesn't work" and "force is a decisive factor." Aliyev pledged
adherence to peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but
added that international peace efforts have failed and "we won't
accept the status quo."
Nagorno-Karabakh is a region of Azerbaijan that has been under the
control of forces that claim to be local ethnic Armenians since a
separatist war ended in 1994. Azerbaijan claims the forces include
regular Armenian military.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan reacted to Aliyev's
speech by tweeting that "war mongering and saber rattling are
irrelevant, deplorable if not preposterous."