If the conflict has ended, why is Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev wearing a military uniform? Former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Kozlarich published such a question on his Twitter page, in response to the Azerbaijani president’s statement that “the Karabakh conflict is over, and Armenia must determine its borders with Azerbaijan”:
Speaking at a meeting with the high-ranking leadership of the Azerbaijani army and a group of servicemen, Aliyev stated, in particular, that “since there is no territorial entity called Nagorno-Karabakh, there is also no concept of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”: