BAKU. Oct 18 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity, President Ilham Aliyev said at an official reception on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Azerbaijan's independence on Monday.
"We have managed to demonstrate to the world that Nagorno Karabakh is a truly historical land of Azerbaijan, in terms of both history and international law, he said.
"Our intensive diplomacy is yielding results. I am convinced that this problem will find its solution in a fair form and in compliance with international law, and Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity," he also said.
Azerbaijan is being guided by several principles as it is further developing, Aliyev said. "We all know that independent Azerbaijan is only making the first steps. The independent Azerbaijan will live forever from now on. We ourselves decide by what basic rules it will be run. The foundations laid today - the principles of independence, sovereignty, democracy, market economy and social justice - are the foundation of the state system. A strong national ideology, and the principles of national spirit and national dignity, are showing us the right way," Aliyev said.
The Azeri parliament adopted the Act on the State Independence of Azerbaijan on October 18, 1991.