BAKU. April 18 (Interfax) - Armenians residing in the Karabakh region should either accept Azerbaijani citizenship or find another place to live, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.
"We have said on numerous occasions that we will not discuss our internal affairs with any [other] country. Karabakh is our internal affair. Armenians residing in Karabakh should either accept Azerbaijani citizenship or find another place to live," Aliyev said in an interview with the state-run television channel AzTV on Tuesday.
Aliyev urged Armenia to confirm that it did not have any territorial claims to Azerbaijan. "Armenia, which has declared its readiness [to sign] a peace treaty based on the Almaty Declaration, should now officially declare that Karabakh is Azerbaijan," he said.
"Armenia formally recognized the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan at meetings in Prague and Sochi last October. This means it has agreed that the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia should be delimited on the basis of the Almaty Declaration of 1991," Aliyev said.