More Rhetoric: Aliyev says Azerbaijan to celebrate victory in Karabakh “soon=?UTF-8?B?4oCd?=

Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity and celebrate its victory in the Karabakh standoff soon, said the country's president Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday in unveiling a monument, in Baku, to a prominent Karabakh-born Azeri folk music performer.

Aliyev stressed that Azerbaijan was "drawing closer" to victory with each day due to its "increasing might" and "growing influence in the international arena".

"We are prepared for any variant [of settling the Karabakh conflict]. We will never allow a second Armenian state to be established in our ancient Azeri land," said the Azerbaijani leader at the ceremony honoring Bulbul (1897-1961), a native of a village near Shushi in Karabakh.  Read more... (310 words)

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