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Vagharshak Harutyunyan: Azerbaijan aimed at achieving local victory to change the line of contact (video)

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Vaxarshak-Harutyunyan

The four-day war broke out for Turkey to establish relations with Russia, former Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Vagharshak Harutyunyan said this at a press conference today. Touching upon the situation at that time, he stressed that the negotiation process on the Madrid Principle was going on; the approach according to which, the Armenian side was to return some regions and the state of Karabakh was determined by a referendum that had legal force, was being discussed. "This was the main reason why Azerbaijan took such steps. At that time Turkey struck a Russian plane and Russia imposed sanctions. Turkey has provoked a war to establish relations with Russia."   According to Vagharshak Harutyunyan, Azerbaijan did not have a problem of returning Karabakh. It aimed at achieving local victory to change the line of contact. "A good program was developed. The successes that Azerbaijan has had on its first day. Later, when the Armenian side had to start counterattack, Azerbaijan asked for a ceasefire. In achieving military success, Azerbaijan was planning to present a new version of the negotiation process and avoid Madrid Principles. " Vagharshak Harutyunyan noted that Azerbaijan's goal was to create an atmosphere of fear in order us to think that we should solve the Karabakh conflict as soon as possible without having any vctims.