"I have instructed the Azerbaijani army to act with restraint and not to follow provocations. My position is known to my people. This issue must be resolved either militarily or peacefully. "
This was stated by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in his address to the nation.
The President noted that in order to resolve the issue peacefully, Armenia must withdraw from the occupied territories:
"We must be given a specific schedule of how many days Armenia must leave. We have accurate information that Armenia has already knelt before us on the battlefield. He simply wants to use the ceasefire to mobilize his forces again, to arm himself and to pursue a new policy of aggression against us. "
Aliyev stressed that weapons have been sent to Armenia en masse over the past month:
"We have all the lists. There is information about when and where the plane landed and what it unloaded. Why does a ceasefire send weapons to Armenia? After all, Armenia is on its knees.
We have already hit him on the head so that he cannot wake up. The Prime Minister of Armenia, who danced drunk on the plains and behaved like a great commander, now falls at his feet and asks for help.
He humiliates himself and his people. Don't give up weapons, let's end this issue. Nobody gives us weapons. In two days he will come begging. On the one hand, a ceasefire is called, on the other hand, weapons are sent to them. Will we remain silent about it? ”