"At that time, after Armenia’s defeat, the United States, the co-chair of the Minsk Group, hastily organized this meeting in Vienna to support Armenia. When I arrived at that meeting, the foreign ministers of the Minsk Group countries were already sitting there and gave me a protocol, or the text of a statement. I saw that there were provisions that did not meet our interests in it, including those related to the non-use of force. I turned it down. I said that I would not sign it," said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev while meeting with members of Jabrayil general public, APA reports.
"So what I am saying is that all the pressure on us was underpinned by that, that we should deal with our internal problems, strive to resolve our internal problems so that Karabakh is forgotten and Armenia keeps these lands forever. Representatives of some foreign countries were saying to us that we had to reckon with reality, we had lost the war, no-one would let us start a new war – they would not, the neighboring countries would not. We were threatened. They threatened that if a new war broke out, we would lose even more land," noted the head of state.
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