“In the first years of independence, Azerbaijan collided with the information war.” About this on his speech at the opening ceremony of the International Strategic Communication Summit Stratcom 21 in Istanbul, Assistant President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiev, said.
The presidential assistant noted the occupation policy of Armenia against Azerbaijan in the first Karabakh war was accompanied by a hybrid war.
“At that time, we were not ready for the information war. Therefore, despite the occupation of Armenia of Azerbaijani lands, and the fact that this occupation was accompanied by terror, aggressive separatism, the world condemned Azerbaijan. Despite the fact that those killed were Azerbaijanis, they They said that the Azerbaijanis allegedly killed Armenians. This propaganda was carried out worldwide called “Armenian Genocide”. We understood at the beginning of the 90s that it is not enough to be right. It is even more important to convey to the whole world that we are right, “Hickmet said Hajiyev.