“One cannot consider Azerbaijan fully independent up until 1993. Only after national leader Heydar Aliyev returned to power in 1993, the country became truly independent,” said Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev as he made a speech at the “National Leader Heydar Aliyev and Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy” conference.
“Historians must pay attention to the fact that sometimes we regard the Karabakh issue in the context of Armenians’ territorial claims against Azerbaijan. However, the documents clearly show that there was the process of Armenia’s annexing not only Karabakh but also the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and presenting those territories as Eastern Armenia. After the National Leader came to Nakhchivan, their wish did not come true too. The Great Leader saved Nakhchivan from sharing a fate of Karabakh,” Hikmat Hajiyev noted.
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