News - Aliyev ignores Blinken's call to immediately stop Azerbaijan military aggression against Karabakh

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has ignored US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's call to immediately stop the Azerbaijani military aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh. A phone conversation with the president of Azerbaijan took place yesterday at the initiative of the US Secretary of State, the Azerbaijani media reported citing Aliyev's press service. Blinken expressed concern about the current situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, called for a ceasefire, and stated that "the US supports direct dialogue between Baku and representatives of Armenians living in the Karabakh region." Aliyev told the US Secretary of State that "the handover of weapons by the Armenian forces is a condition for the cessation of the antiterrorist operation of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Karabakh." Let's emphasize that in this telephonic conversation with Blinken, Aliyev did not even promise to stop the Azerbaijani military operations subject to the "disarmament" of Nagorno-Karabakh, but only to "stop." At the same time, Aliyev openly lied, saying that only "military targets" were being shelled in Nagorno-Karabakh. As we have already informed, one child is among the dead, and more than ten children are wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh.