When we started building this new Lachin road, we appealed to Armenia through the Russian side and said that - because I guessed that they would have such a juggling act, - we suggested that we also build a road in your territory.

It is only 8-9 kilometers there.

They refused it.

APA reports that President Ilham Aliyev said these words in an interview with Azerbaijan Television on August 12 in Basgal settlement.

"They said no, we will do it ourselves.

And when did they start it?!

It is impossible to start it, because they are only working on the technical and economic justification now.

At that time, we have already sent an official letter to the Russian side.

We have sent a notice that we will finish this road on August 5 and we ask you to transfer the posts of the peacekeeping contingent from the old road to the new road.

This is also natural.

When we sent this letter to them, probably the Armenian side also got acquainted with that letter, a day after that, Armenia declared that we want to start the economic justification of this road and we will build it by the end of 2023.

That is, it is actually manipulation.

It is a completely frivolous and inappropriate step.

We said, if that's the case, then we're entering the corridor of Lachin on August 5,

We create posts and see how you will act.

After that, the world came to each other and the Armenians living in Karabakh turned to us and asked.

They repeatedly asked to be given time until the end of August.

We agreed to it.

Because it doesn't matter whether it's August 5th, August 25th or September 1st.

At the same time, the Armenians living in Karabakh appealed to us to build a 4-kilometer dirt road to the point where it will be connected to the Armenian border.

We agreed to that.

But, of course, people who have illegally settled in the city of Lachin, the villages of Zabux and Sus should be removed.

This is natural.

Their stay there is, in fact, a war crime.

Because it is against the rules of Geneva conversions.

The occupying country cannot carry out illegal settlement in the occupied lands.

This is a war crime.

Maybe the Armenians living there who came from Syria and Lebanon do not know this, but the Armenian leadership knows it well.

That's why some news is coming from there, one says that I won't leave, the other says that I won't leave.

They can.

They are war criminals.

Let them not try us and our patience again.

Let them leave as they please.

We don't care where they go."