{"id":43972,"date":"2020-10-03T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43972"},"modified":"2020-10-03T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:22:19","slug":"president-of-azerbaijan-tells-armenia-to-leave-our-territory-and-then-the-war-will-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43972","title":{"rendered":"President of Azerbaijan tells Armenia to &#8216;leave our territory, and then, the war will stop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\" readability=\"37.575327510917\">\n<p>In an interview with Al Jazeera, President Aliyev went on to say that once the war is over &#8220;maybe some time later people of Azerbaijan and Armenia can again live together, in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" readability=\"39.725988700565\">Aliyev, however, gave no indication that a cessation of <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/09\/28\/europe\/azerbaijan-armenia-clashes-explainer-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hostilities<\/a> would end anytime soon, adding: &#8220;I think Armenian government overestimated their so-called importance on global arena, overestimated the possible international support to them and made very serious mistakes provoking us, attacking us and now they are suffering the very serious defeat.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/01\/middleeast\/azerbaijan-armenia-syrian-rebels-intl\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" alt=\"Rebels from Syria recruited to fight in conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, source says\" data-src-mini=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"not-loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rebels from Syria recruited to fight in conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, source says\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/201001130210-01-nagorny-karabakh-missile-1001-large-169.jpg\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" readability=\"34.140845070423\">Long-simmering tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have flared up in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/09\/27\/europe\/armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-nagorno-karabakh-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent days<\/a>, with both sides accusing each other of attacking civilians amid reports of casualties.<\/div>\n<p>The neighboring countries have long been at odds over the mountainous territory &#8212; which is situated within the borders of Azerbaijan &#8212; and fought a war over it that ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\" readability=\"51.770812928501\">\n<p>Although the conflict finished with a Russian-brokered cease-fire, military skirmishes between the two sides are not uncommon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" readability=\"28.362068965517\">Further evidence has emerged this week of <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/10\/01\/middleeast\/azerbaijan-armenia-syrian-rebels-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebels from Syria being recruited<\/a> to fight as mercenaries in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, over the disputed enclave.<\/div>\n<p>But both Azerbaijan and Turkey have denied the presence of Syrian rebels in the conflict &#8212; something that Aliyev maintained in his Al Jazeera interview, adamant that no such fighters were in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyev urged French President Emmanuel Macron to provide proof that Syrian mercenaries were fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, saying, &#8220;He made the statements without any evidence. Let him give us evidence. Let him give us proof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Saturday, the Armenian Foreign Ministry warned: &#8220;The political-military leadership of Azerbaijan will pay a high price for committing such grave crimes against the Armenians of Artsakh, for importing terrorists to the region and for undermining the regional security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph zn-body__footer\">Aren Melikyan reported from Yerevan, Armenia and Arzu Geybullaeva reported from Istanbul. Rory Sullivan and Jennifer Hauser contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Al Jazeera, President Aliyev went on to say that once the war is over &#8220;maybe some time later people of Azerbaijan and Armenia can again live together, in peace.&#8221;Aliyev, however, gave no indication that a cessation of hostilities would end anytime soon, adding: &#8220;I think Armenian government overestimated their so-called importance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}