n an interview with FRANCE 24, Hikmet Hajiyev, a senior adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, reacted to the recent flare-up in violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan. At least 16 people have been killed on the border in the worst violence in the region since 2016. Hajiyev said that Armenia had deliberately pursued a policy of aggression towards his country and warned that he was expecting further military moves from Armenia “at any moment”. He also accused Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of advancing a bellicose nationalist agenda.
Adviser to Azerbaijan’s president: ‘We are expecting provocation from Armenia at any moment’
