Azerbaijan managed to achieve a historic victory thanks to its strong army, determined political will, and high-level state administration, Hikmat Babaoglu, a member of the Milli Majlis, told Report.
"The liberation of the city of Lachin, as well as Zabukh and Sus from the invaders, is an indication of Azerbaijan's strength and determination. However, we will never forget that our lands were under Armenian occupation for many years," he said.
"As a nation, we should know the reasons why our impregnable fortresses and homelands were invaded. We should remember our painful past for a lesson on these solemn days. Thus, in the early 1990s, quite serious gaps were allowed in the administration of the Azerbaijani state. Our national strength was not directed against the Armenian occupation but toward internal political strife. Violence, chaos, and intrigues within the society reached such a level that civil war started in Azerbaijan, ethnic and regional separatism broke out," MP added.
He said that the political authorities of that time became parties to this intrigue and conflict:
"Foreign policy and diplomacy ceased to be a means of defending national interests and turned into a tool that gained enemies for Azerbaijan. The army was disbanded entirely and turned into paramilitary groups of individual 'politicians'. This was undoubtedly the result of the incompetence of the political authorities of that time, their lack of knowledge of management, and at the same time, their inability to cope with the geopolitical processes taking place in the world.
"Such historical mistakes led to Armenians occupying 20% of our lands – Lachin and other territories we are talking about today. Our people were doomed to bitter defeat for 30 years. But today, we have restored our territorial integrity thanks to proper and purposeful management, a foreign policy that serves our national interests, strategic foresight, and military-political determination. This is a great historic victory and a good lesson to learn from our past. It is a celebration of people-government unity and proper governance."
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