Sharmazanov: International community should respond to Aliyev`s  territorial claims against Armenia, otherwise he will also set sights  on Iran  

ArmInfo. The international community should respond to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's statement about his intention to "retrieve" the territory of the  Republic of Armenia, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov told ArmInfo's correspondent.    

"The silence of the international community regarding Aliyev's  bellicose remarks on Nagorno-Karabakh has resulted in the fact that  he is already setting sights on the territory of a sovereign country,  a UN member. If this continues, Aliyev will start laying down  territorial claims against Iran and probably other neighbors as well.  The appetite comes with eating," Sharmazanov said.         

"During the latest meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander  Lukashenko, Aliyev stated that the actual founder of Azerbaijan was  his father Heydar Aliyev. The statement of Aliyev Jr. means that  Azerbaijan is only a few dozens years old. In that case, how can it  claim for Yerevan, which is 2798 years old? So, Aliyev is  self-contradictory," Sharmazanov said, advising the Azeri president  to study the books by ancient Greek and ancient Roman historians to  avoid such ridiculous situations. 

Given the Azerbaijani leadership's addition to expensive cars,  Sharmazanov also recommended Aliyev to familiarize himself with the  history of creation of Audi and Mercedes-Benz cars. "I would like to  point out that Mercedes-Benz is 2 years older than Azerbaijan and  Audi is 9 years older than Azerbaijan," he said.       

Sharmazanov also stressed that such statements of the Azeri  leadership are due to Baku's nervous reaction to the pressure exerted  on Azerbaijan in the Karabakh peace process. "By the way, Aliyev  himself has recently confessed it," Sharmazanov added.    

To note, on December 4, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated  an intention to "retrieve" the territory of the Republic of Armenia.  'Today, we do not claim the land of the modern Republic of Armenia.  We do not intend to return by military means Yerevan, or Meghri,  Goris. But I'm sure that time will come, and we, Azerbaijanis, will  return to all our historic lands'.