President: During war, we traced all routes of weapons’ supply from Russia to Armenia

There have been a lot of expectations in Armenia that Russia will interfere into war in Karabakh. It didn’t happen because Azerbaijan fought on its territory, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting with participants of the international conference 'South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation.’

"We all know that there have been a lot of expectations in Armenia that Russia will interfere into war in Karabakh. It didn’t happen because we fought on our territory. Armenia was trying to manipulate with these common defense treaty organizations’ obligation, but common defense treaty organization has a mandate to support member states on their territory, and we were fighting on our territory, so that didn’t happen. But at the same time we all know and we publicly said many times that during the 44 days’ war, regularly there’ve been several a day cargo planes carrying weapons from Russia to Armenia, we traced all the routes, from Rostov, from Mozdok, we asked our Georgian friends to block the airspace, and they did. Also, we asked our Georgian friends to block the land route from Russia to Georgia to transport weapons from Armenia, and they did it also, and we are grateful. We sent letters to all Caspian-littoral states not to allow Russian cargo planes carrying weapons to Armenia. We sent it to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran, but unfortunately, these planes were using the territory of these countries, entering Armenia,” Ilham Aliyev said.

"So that was how it was, and we should not hide this part of the 44 days’ war. But Armenian expectations were much bigger. They thought that Russian army should come and fight and to defend separatism, and it did not happen. There was a kind of frustration there but because of the years of occupation, we know how the Armenian government and diaspora works: they think that the whole world owes them everything, and someone will come and defend them, someone will come and fight for them, someone will come and give them money, give them everything, and they will sit and just exploit their questionable and, how to say, very doubtful so-called tragedy. Every country and every nation had tragic moments in its history. But their problem is that they made their main ideology these very doubtful and fake historical facts, rather than to look to the future,” he added.





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