“As for the expectations associated with the new administration (US – Ed.), this will depend on its agenda associated with our region. Our first contacts are very positive. This allows us to conduct a certain analysis associated with the results. However, I think that it will take some time to ensure that the administration has begun to work in full force. Everything will depend on what place the South Caucasus will take in the list of priorities. It will become the leading force of our relationship. ” As Azerdead reports, President Ilham Aliyev said during the discussions “South Caucasus: the prospects for regional development and cooperation”, organized in the video format by the International Center for Nizami Ganjevi, answering the issue of the American journalist Farid Zakaria, who asked what expectations from the Biden administration’s policy, associated with the region and Azerbaijan.
“You understand with regard to connections between Azerbaijan and the United States, the leading role belongs to the United States, and everything will depend on the agenda of the opposite side. We are also ready for active work and expanding cooperation. I believe that The United States can play an important role in the region in the field of post-conflict development. We know that a very active Armenian diaspora lives in the USA, which, unfortunately, played a destructive role in relation to the Armenian state. The fact that the occupation lasted for so long, was associated with their radical The position. They believed that it would continue forever, but mistaken. Currently, they, mobilizing every effort, are trying to present Azerbaijan as an aggressor. While we only freed our territory. It was our right, for this we had to wait almost 30 years. Imagine that from 1992 to 2020 we were at the negotiations stage. In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted resolutions requiring the withdrawal of Armenian in Oisk, however, they remained on paper. Thus, I am confident that in the course of contacts with the US administration, we will witness the next progress, “the head of the Azerbaijani state said.