“Azerbaijan will never abdicate from its territorial integrity”, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev stated in his interview with Financial Times. “We are ready to negotiate on concessions, but not in this matter. We will not grant independence to Nagorno Karabakh and will not tolerate its joining to Armenia”, he noted. In exchange Aliyev offered the Armenians, who live in Karabakh, security guarantees and the highest degree of autonomy, the Saturday number of the newspaper writes.





