"Certainly, the occupation of our lands made our situation even worse.

The occupation of Shusha and Lachin in May 1992 was a great tragedy both morally and from a military-strategic point of view.

Because in this way, the geographical connection between the territory called "Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Province" and Armenia was ensured.

APA reports that the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said this during his speech at the event held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the New Azerbaijan Party.

"Everyone saw well that if things continue like this, the occupation of Kalbajar will be inevitable.

Unfortunately, that happened.

In other words, in April 1993, Kalbajar was also occupied, and thus most of our territory was out of our control," he said.