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April 29, Fineko/abc.az. The principles of international law should be fair for all countries.

ABC.AZ reports that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made this statement at a meeting with participants of international conference "South Caucasus: Development & Cooperation".

"We support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, like other countries, and openly declare this, we do not hide behind a tree. Yes, we don’t deny that we have good relations with Russia. In no case should the principles of international law be distorted because of political superiority," he said.

The Azerbaijani leader added that the international community has treated Azerbaijan selectively in the matter of its territorial integrity.

"Even before the events in Ukraine, the international community has always, in a very open form, supported the territorial integrity of Georgia and Moldova. But when it came to us, the message was the following: "conclude a peace treaty with Armenia". But how can you make peace with an aggressor who has seized your lands? We’ve been trying to achieve this for 17 years, and we’ve found that it is impossible.

Then we saw the following: the more we tried to achieve peace, the more aggressive the aggressor became. Armenia has already begun to threaten us with a new war. They said, "Karabakh is Armenia", and now they say, "Karabakh is Azerbaijan". And who says that? The same people who called Karabakh Armenian in 2019. We’ve created new realities, with our own hands, at the expense of our might, with our spirit," President Aliyev stressed.