Aliyev says Azerbaijan created a completely new situation in the South Caucasus

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Azerbaijan had created an absolutely new situation in the South Caucasus while speaking at the opening of the 7th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, according to APA. He said world forums are held every second year, with only one exception during COVID, and that the last forum took place in 2024. Aliyev noted that in the two years since, many things had changed in both positive and negative directions.

Among the negative developments, he cited new wars next door to Azerbaijan. Among the positive ones, he pointed to peace with Armenia, which was initialed last August in Washington, in the White House, in the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump. Aliyev said the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan put their signatures to the document in front of the U.S. president, stressing that it was not a peace agreement but an initialed text.

Aliyev also said a trilateral declaration was signed, with the American president signing it as a witness. He said Azerbaijan had restored justice, liberated its territories and created a new situation in the South Caucasus that had never existed in the history of the independent South Caucasian countries, and that it had put a stamp on this in the White House.