“During the war, the Azerbaijani army was very close to entering Hankendi, but we did not. Of course, it was a very difficult solution from a military point of view, but for us it was a moral question. We did not want See the death of the civilian population in Hankendi. ” This was stated by the assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, head of the department of foreign policy of the Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiev during a speech at the conference in Shusha.
Hikmet Gadzhiev noted that Karabakh is no longer a matter of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy: “This issue has already been resolved, and the OSCE Minsk group has been a thing of the past. This issue has already been exhausted for us, now we want to establish civilized relations.”