“Armenia had certain expectations that Russia would intervene in the Karabakh war, but this did not happen.” About this during a meeting with participants in the international conference “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation” said the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
The head of state noted that in the 44-day war, Azerbaijan fought on his territory, and Armenia tried to manipulate the actions of the CSTO.
“But the CSTO provides the protection of the territories of the participating countries, while we defended our territory. At the same time, we know and talked about it openly that all 44 days of the war, freight planes flew from Russia to Armenia, from Rostov, Mozdok, we We tracked these routes. We asked Georgian friends to closed the airspace, which they did. We also asked them to block the ground tracks along which Armenia was delivered, they also blocked the ground tracks. We are grateful for this, ” – we are grateful for it.” noted Ilham Aliyev.
The President also said that Azerbaijan sent letters to the Caspian states – Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan so that they would not miss freight aircraft from Russia to Armenia.
“But, unfortunately, the airspace of these countries was used and weapons were done. It was, and we should not hide this side of the second Karabakh war. But Armenia’s expectations were much larger. They thought that the Russian army should fight and fight and To protect separatism. But this did not happen. Of course, this caused disappointment in Armenia, because over many years they have developed confidence that everyone owes them something, will fight for them or give them money, ”said the head of state.