Azerbaijani Ambassador to US Praises Trump as Genuine Leader, Peacemaker

Azerbaijani Ambassador to the US Khazar Ibrahim has announced that US President Donald Trump is a genuine leader and a real advocate for peace.

“President Trump is a true leader, a true peacemaker. So that’s why we knew from the very beginning, after he was elected, that there will be more efforts, not only in our region, but all around the world, for peace, prosperity, and development,” the ambassador said in an interview with the Washington Examiner newspaper, The Caspian Post informs via local media.

He noted that it came very naturally that the new administration was interested in bringing peace and development to the region.

The ambassador cited the Joint Declaration signed in Washington, saying, “We acknowledged the need to continue further actions to achieve the signing and ultimate ratification of the Agreement, and emphasized the importance of maintaining and strengthening peace between our two countries.”

As Ibrahim explained, the initialling by the foreign ministers fixes the current agreement in place, “which literally means, when you initial it, that it is there, you cannot change it. It is fixed, and the only thing that is needed is just to sign it at some point.”

“It was about trust, I believe, because since regaining our independence, Azerbaijan and Armenia, we never had a time when we had a real peace. The occupation was there. We were trying to solve these issues for quite a long time. There were mediators. Nothing was happening. And of course, there was no trust. I think this trust has started to be built. Therefore, that was the biggest impediment: trust. I wouldn’t say that today we have full trust - it’s literally impossible. I would be dishonest to say that, but we now have the growing, developing trust between Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he said.

“But in order to have peace deals to finalize, you need a global leader who can step up, who can help. And then, literally, six months ago, after the election of President Trump, there was a global leader who wanted to bring peace,” the diplomat emphasized.

“We all understand in the relations between two countries, if one has territorial claims against another, you can have a million agreements, you can have 10,000 treaties, that will not work. So the only impediment remaining is the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, which has territorial claims against Azerbaijan,” Ibrahim noted.

“So we hope that in a very short period of time, that provision is changed in Armenia, then we can happily sign the final peace agreement,” he added.