Azerbaijan - Armenia relations

Prime Minister of Armenia

09 Nov 2020 2 5

Nikol Pashinyan

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Armenian people are ready for mutual concessions, even painful ones, but not for the capitulation of Karabakh.”

Prime Minister of Armenia

26 Oct 2020 2 3

Ceyhun Bayramov

Inserted 3 years ago

“We are committed to finding a political solution [to] the conflict and ready to resume substantive talks immediately. Armenia must stop avoiding meaningful negotiations and choose lasting peace.”

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

23 Oct 2020 5 4

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“Azerbaijan will give its response and it will do so exclusively on the battlefield”

President of Azerbaijan

17 Oct 2020 2 3

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 3 years ago

“We stand by our viewpoint – a peaceful settlement is not only possible, it remains the only way”

Russian Foreign Minister

14 Oct 2020 3 3

Zohrab Mnatsakanyan

Inserted 3 years ago

“We want the ceasefire, we want verification mechanisms on the ground, which will indicate the perpetrator, which will demonstrate the party that is not faithful to this ceasefire.”

Armenia’s foreign minister

12 Oct 2020 2 3

Bernard Smith

Inserted 3 years ago

“When they [Armenian website Civil NET] released their names, they also released their birth dates. Almost all of them born in 2001 and 2002. When you see those figures you see the pressure the leaders on both sides are under to make sure they are not the ones to be seen to be giving way to the other side.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist

12 Oct 2020 2 3

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“When Pashinyan gave us an ultimatum, when he offended the feelings of Azerbaijanis, he deserved to have been punished for it. And we [punished him]. He should thank Putin for the fact that once again, Russia came to save Armenia.”

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President of Azerbaijan

11 Oct 2020 (approx) 3 4

Khadija Ismayilova

Inserted 3 years ago

“Ganja and Mingachevir cities have no active artillery units deployed there. No single rocket or bullet was fired from this cities. Yet Armenian army targets them. And somehow they keep hitting only civilian targets.”

Twitter

Investigative journalist based in Azerbaijan

10 Oct 2020 3 2

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“Today Azerbaijan’s Army has liberated the town of Hadrut, and Chayli, Yukhari Guzlek, Gorazilli, Gishlag, Garajali, Efendiler, Suleymanli and Sur villages. Long live Azerbaijan’s Army! Karabakh is Azerbaijan!”

Twitter

President of Azerbaijan

09 Oct 2020 2 2

Nikol Pashinyan

Inserted 3 years ago

“While it is true that the leadership of Azerbaijan has been actively promoting bellicose rhetoric for the last 15 years, now the decision to unleash a war was motivated by Turkey's full support.”

Prime Minister of Armenia

06 Oct 2020 3 4

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“Thanks to the advanced Turkish drones owned by the Azerbaijan military, our casualties on the front have shrunk. These drones show Turkey’s strength. This also empowers us.”

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President of Azerbaijan

05 Oct 2020 4 6

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“Azerbaijan has one condition, and that is the liberation of its territories. Nagorno-Karabakh is the territory of Azerbaijan. We must return and we shall return.”

President of Azerbaijan

04 Oct 2020 2 3

Ilham Aliyev

Inserted 3 years ago

“They want to occupy our lands forever. If Armenia demonstrated goodwill and acted in compliance with many international resolutions, the conflict would have been resolved long ago.”

President of Azerbaijan

03 Oct 2020 (approx) 2 3

Emil Mustafayev

Inserted 3 years ago

“Ankara will not meddle in the conflict until Russia does. So far, we see a rather restrained response from Moscow.”

Political analyst based in the Azerbaijani capital Baku

28 Sep 2020 4 3

Olesya Vartanyan

Inserted 3 years ago

“We haven’t seen anything like this since the ceasefire to the war in the 1990s. The fighting is taking place along all sections of the front line. If there are mass casualties it will be extremely difficult to contain this fighting and we will definitely see a full-fledged war that will have a potential intervention of Turkey or Russia, or both of them.”

Senior analyst for the South Caucasus region at Crisis Group

28 Sep 2020 4 2

Ibrahim Kalin

Inserted 3 years ago

“We believe this conflict can be resolved through peaceful negotiations, but Armenian side has shown no interest so far other than continuing to occupy parts of Azerbaijan.”