BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 30. A year and a half has passed since the second Karabakh war. Military experts and people dealing with this issue are still talking about Azerbaijan’s victory, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev said making a speech during his visit to a military unit of the Special Forces of the Defense Ministry as the Special Forces mark the 23rd anniversary of its establishment, Trend reports.
"I have been asked many questions about this issue, about the war and about our victory. What are the factors that preconditioned this Victory? The first among them is patriotism. In other words, it was the love of the Motherland that led you to death and made you say “We will rather die than go back”. And we demonstrated exactly that. We have demonstrated to the whole world that we are a great nation and we have fought the war with dignity. While the enemy was being defeated on the battlefield, our cities and villages were fired upon. More than a hundred civilians, including children and women, lost their lives under this cowardly fire. We fought a war with dignity, and I said during the war that we would take revenge on the battlefield. We have never fought and will never fight against civilians. The sublime qualities of the Azerbaijani people do not allow us, and it never happened. The whole world recognizes that the Azerbaijanis fought with dignity, fought like men, drove out the enemy, brought it to its knees and kept their word," the head of state said.