Aliyev: I hope Yerevan will abandon territorial claims against Turkey and Azerbaijan 
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev called on Armenia to abandon territorial claims to Turkey and Azerbaijan. Interfax-Azerbaijan reports this.
According to Aliyev, Yerevan “sooner or later will understand” that territorial claims “do not bring benefit and honor”. “I hope that Armenia will give up its territorial claims against Turkey and Azerbaijan, and if not, then it will further worsen its position,” he said, speaking on Friday, November 12, at the eighth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States.
According to him, in the 1920s, the leadership of the USSR gave part of Azerbaijan to Armenia. “Thus, the Turkic world was divided, and today we are once again uniting the geography of the Turkic world through logistics projects,” Aliyev said, adding that the launch of the Zangezur corridor “will open up very broad opportunities for the entire region.”
In 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh, predominantly inhabited by Armenians, declared independence from Azerbaijan, which tried to return it by force. In 1994, the parties signed a truce, which was periodically violated.
On September 27, 2020, battles began on the line of contact between Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). On November 9 of the same year, the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan adopted a ceasefire statement. As a result of the war, Baku regained control of part of the lost territories.
On the anniversary of the end of the war, the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that the Azerbaijani army had occupied large territories of the NKR and committed numerous war crimes there.