Ilham Aliyev confident Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process will be long-lasting

"The peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan is underway, and I am confident that it will be long-lasting," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said on September 15 while receiving Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States, members and observers of the Council of Heads of Muslim Religious Boards of the Organization of Turkic States, as well as a delegation comprising co-organizers of the Yahya Bakuvi International Conference and members of the Supreme Religious Council of Caucasian Peoples, Report informs.

President stressed that today there is peace, and the war has ceased.

"At any rate, such is the position of the Azerbaijani state. However, we will never forget the atrocities committed against us and against our people. We will never forget the victims of Khojaly, our destroyed mosques, or our desecrated cultural sites, and this memory will make us even more vigilant. This memory will not allow us to be deceived by sweet words again; it will not allow any insidious plans against our people to succeed ever again. We must be vigilant, we are vigilant, and at the same time, we are strengthening our military might," President Ilham Aliyev said.

"It was precisely through military power and the heroism of our sons that we expelled Armenia's occupying army from our lands. Therefore, military-patriotic education has gained immense momentum in Azerbaijan today. Everyone sees that today's world has completely changed and that the factor of force has come to the fore. We were not the ones to put forward the principle of 'might makes right.' However, we must reckon with existing realities, and naturally, we do. We know that there is one guarantee for our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, and the future of our people as a free and independent nation-and that is our willpower, our determination, our military strength, the unity of our people as a single fist, our faith, and our national values."