During his interview to the Russian Ria Novosti Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large, ex-President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasyan said, “Ilham Aliyev does not see the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Moreover, from the height of his potentially unchangeable dictatorial power he does not see the democratic development of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, does not see the NKR territories occupied by Azerbaijan, does not see the hundreds of thousands of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan and some regions of Karabakh, where his predecessors carried out ethnic cleansings. Aliyev does not remember that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic established itself as a full-fledged state in line with all norms of international law. He does not remember the massacre of Armenians all over Azerbaijani territory (Sumgayit, Kirovabad, Shamkhor, Baku…). He does not remember that it launched a large-scale aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, as a result of which both parties suffered human and material losses. He does not remember how inglorious that adventurism ended for Azerbaijan and does not remember with whom it had to conclude a cease-fire agreement in 1994. Aliyev does not listen to the calls of the international community to stop the militant rhetoric, to take the snipers away from the line of contact, to stop the hostile propaganda. He listens only to himself, but tries to speak from the viewpoint of interests of the mediators, Armenia, and even the people of Nagorno Karabakh,” he added.
