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Is Aliyev sincere in his “peace” plans?

Aliyev’s recent remarks on Armenia On January 10, 2024, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev gave a 2.5-hour interview with local TV channels. In his interview, Aliyev not only repeated false remarks and justified the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Artsakh but also threatened Armenia.  When it comes to delimitin

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Yeghia Tashjian

Yeghia Tashjian is the Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and International Affairs-American University of Beirut’s Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from the American University of Beirut and completed the "Strategic Leadership in Global Societal Security Program" at the Swedish Defense University in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Haigazian University in 2013 and has worked in the university's Armenian Diaspora Research Center between 2016-2017. Yeghia's master’s thesis focused on China's geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. Currently, Tashjian is engaged in research on the phenomenon of Turkish-Russian 'co-opetition' in the MENA+ Caucasus region and Russia's involvement in the International North-South Transport Corridor. He contributes to various local and regional newspapers, has presented various topics from minority rights to regional security issues, and is a part-time instructor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.

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  1. The terrorist cesspool of artificial republic of Azerbaijan on its own does not have the power now, nor did it have at any other time, to demand anything from Armenia using such belligerent rhetoric. Terrorist Turkey is behind all this just like terrorist Turkey was behind the 2020 invasion of the Armenian Liberated territories. It is inconceivable to believe that Ilham Aliyev the draft-dodging chicken-hawk son of the late KGB agent Heydar Aliyev, defeated and humiliated by Armenian victors three decades ago, can make such demands from Armenia on his own when he himself could only dream of getting some concessions from Armenia a decade or two ego when he took over the leadership of this artificial terrorist state after his KGB father’s death. Turkish and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani terrorists are well-known for being opportunistic and they will exploit the current situation to their advantage to the fullest and to the detriment of Armenia and right now in particular given the fact that today Armenia is still being run by an incompetent and dysfunctional government whose leaders, completely detached from reality, think they can make peace with devils. What our enemies are illegally demanding today are part of their century-old unfulfilled dreams and they have found an opportunity to make their dreams come true. We must never allow this to happen. As far as trusting or believing in the sincerity of the Turkish and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani terrorist leaders are concerned, I say you can believe that pigs will grow wings long before you can trust or believe what they say. Realistic or not, our ultimate goals should be holding Turkey responsible for their genocidal crimes and the liberation of occupied Western Armenia as a result and the total destruction of artificial Azerbaijan republic invented on occupied Armenian territories. If there is a will there is a way.

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