BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 10. Today, the lands of the Gazakh district, occupied in 1990 and 1992, have been returned to us without a single shot being fired. The process of delimitation and demarcation is underway on our terms, and this is yet another victory for us, said President Ilham Aliyev during a ceremony to present apartment keys to the first returning residents of Shusha, Trend reports.
"The people of Azerbaijan showed their greatness again in 1993. The people appealed to the National Leader and invited him to take power. Because the people of Azerbaijan were aware that only Heydar Aliyev could save them from those misfortunes. The ceasefire reached in 1994 was an enforced measure – we could never put up with the ceasefire, neither my father nor I. He did not live to see this day. We, his followers, have fulfilled his and the Azerbaijani people's dream and achieved this historic Victory. We showed the enemy their place, and today the enemy is helpless in front of us. Today, on our demand only, four villages of Gazakh district are being returned to us without us having to resort to any other means, so to speak. They will be returned to us on our demand, and this is the way it should be. And it will be like this from now on. We have the say here, we are the leading state in the Caucasus, we are the leading state economically, politically, militarily, in all aspects, and everyone should reckon with us. Both Armenia and the foreign circles behind it, those giving them false promises, will regret if they do not reckon with us.
Today, the lands of the Gazakh district, occupied in 1990 and 1992, are being returned to us without a single shot being fired. The process of delimitation and demarcation is underway on our terms, and this is yet another victory of ours," President Ilham Aliyev said.