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Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

NAILIA BAGIVORA and NVARD HOVHANNISYAN AZERBAIJAN’S President Ilham Aliyev has demanded that Armenia set a timetable for withdrawing from the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azeri territories, and said Azerbaijan would not cease military action until that happened. In a televised address to the nation, Aliyev said Azeri forces were advancing in a week-long offensive to retake lands that they lost to ethnic Armenians in the 1990s. "The Azeri soldier is chasing them like a dog, the Azeri soldier is standing at their posts, we have taken their weaponry, we are carrying out the mission of liberation," he declared. The…
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