Mehriban Aliyeva to Armenian mothers: "Do not let your children to become victims of occupation policy"

First Vice President of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Mehriban Aliyeva, at a meeting with a group of soldiers and officers of the Azerbaijani Army, who were wounded during the April battles in 2016, thanked them for their heroism.

"Losing a son is the greatest tragedy for every parent. The people don't want war. Mothers do not want to lose their sons. May Allah grant all our martyrs peace. Their blessed memory will live forever in the hearts of the Azerbaijani people. Azerbaijan is a peace-loving country. Therefore, we want the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved peacefully and have negotiated for more than 20 years. But no one should forget that Armenia occupied Azerbaijani territories and Azerbaijan will never tolerate this occupation," the first vice-president said.

"Azerbaijani soldiers, Azerbaijani sons fight for their homeland, fighting and giving their lives. Their struggle is fair. What is the Armenian soldier doing on the Azerbaijani territory?! The main reason for the conflict and losses is the presence of Armenian soldiers on Azerbaijan's territory. I want to appeal to Armenian mothers - do not let your children to become victims of occupation policy, do not support the occupation policy. This must be stopped in the near future. Nagorno-Karabakh is a native land of Azerbaijan. The conflict must be resolved in the near future within the framework of international legal norms and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the occupying forces must withdraw from Azerbaijan. After that, peace will reign in the region, and no mother, neither Azerbaijani nor Armenian, will shed tears over the grave of their sons," Mehriban Aliyeva believes.