Ilham Aliyev addresses the nation from Khankendi on Victory Day: “Our national spirit carried us forward”

On 8 November, the sixth anniversary of Victory Day, President Ilham Aliyev laid a wreath at the Victory Monument in Khankendi and addressed the people of Azerbaijan from there. He congratulated the Armed Forces and honoured the memory of those killed in the Patriotic War.

Aliyev recalled that more than 300 towns and villages were liberated in 44 days and the Azerbaijani flag was raised over them. He said he was speaking in front of the Victory Arch in Khankendi, the second such arch after Baku. Each step of the staircase leading up to it carries one day of the war, and final work on a Victory Museum in Khankendi is under way.

He said that under the Great Return programme 97,000 people now live, work and study in the liberated areas. He called the idea of Azerbaijanism a philosophy that unites all citizens and ended with the words “Long live the people of Azerbaijan! Long live Azerbaijan!”