If Heydar Aliyev had been in Azerbaijan at that time, he would never have allowed these plots to be played out against the Azerbaijani people, nor would he have ever allowed separatist tendencies to take root in Karabakh.

Operativ Media reports that President Ilham Aliyev said this during his speech at the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP).

The head of state emphasized that, knowing all this well, the Azerbaijani people linked their only path to salvation with Heydar Aliyev.