From the speech of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the Victory Parade dedicated to the Victory in the Patriotic War

10 December 2020

In the early 1990s, Armenia’s policy of aggression against Azerbaijan led to the occupation of our lands. In fact, Armenia’s aggressive policy began in the late 1980s. At that time, 100,000 Azerbaijanis living in the present-day Republic of Armenia were expelled from their ancestral lands. Zangezur, Goycha and Iravan districts are our historical lands. Our people have lived in these lands for centuries, but the Armenian leadership expelled 100,000 Azerbaijanis from their native lands.