Azerbaijan had no other choice: Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkey
During the special session of the UN Security Council on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akçapar announced that the "anti-terrorist operation" undertaken by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh has ended, and negotiations have begun, 1lurer reports.
Akçapar, spotlighting his country’s ongoing support for the peace process, said that, in the last three years, “Armenia has been reluctant to fully implement the trilateral declaration, pointing to, among others, the illegal military formation in Karabakh and its armed attacks, and the deployment of weaponry that remains in the region.”
“Azerbaijan sought to address those issues, as well as matters regarding humanitarian initiatives, through dialogue, but was met with no cooperation. Moreover, the Armenian side continues to spread false information about the situation in the region, abusing international platforms for a fake agenda,” Burak Akçapar stated.
After three years of suffering, Azerbaijan was left with no choice but to take measures it deemed necessary for its own security and launched its counter-terrorism operation against the illegal military formation in Karabakh, he continued.
Echoing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his statement to the General Assembly earlier this week, he said: “We expect Armenia to fulfil its promises... Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory; the imposition of a status other than that will never be accepted.”
He urged Armenia and other interested parties “not to waste this latest opportunity, not to repeat the previous and recent mistakes, and to act with the prospect to live as peaceful and prosperous South Caucuses for future generations.”
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