Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev triumphantly visits Nagorno-Karabakh
The Azerbaijani president visited the city of Fizouli, which had been reconquered by his army, on November 16, 2020. Here, a photo with his wife, provided by his presidency.
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A little over a week after the "total ceasefire" between Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev visited on November 16, with great fanfare, the territories reconquered by his army.
The Azerbaijani head of state traveled with his wife to one of the emblematic districts recaptured from the Armenian forces.
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In the images broadcast by the presidency, Ilham Aliev wears a big smile.
In military attire, he holds his wife's hand and poses for the cameras, then he kisses the flag of Azerbaijan hoisted on the pediment of a building
reclaimed in Nagorno-Karabakh
, he refreshes his face by plunging his hands into the water of a river.
We even see him driving an armored vehicle, then a car, filmed by his wife, as he travels through the Fizouli region, one of the symbolic cities of the conflict, occupied by
the separatists
since 1993.
"
There will be no autonomy statute for Karabakh
, declares Ilham Aliev in this video,
Azerbaijan is a united country
".
The Armenians
"
destroyed everything here
" so that "
the Azerbaijanis never come back here
", but "
we are back in our native lands
".
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