It is State Sovereignty Day in Azerbaijan
Today, 20 September, is State Sovereignty Day in Azerbaijan.
On 19 September, President Ilham Aliyev signed the Decree “On establishing the Day of State Sovereignty in the Republic of Azerbaijan”.
Based on the decree, every year 20 September will be celebrated as the State Sovereignty Day in Azerbaijan.
In the document emphasized that starting from the early 1990s, the Republic of Armenia grossly violated the requirements of the Charter of the United Nations and implemented a policy of aggression against Azerbaijan and occupied 20 percent of the internationally recognized territory of our country using military force.
It was noted that ethnic cleansing was carried out against Azerbaijanis in Armenia and the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, as a result of crimes against humanity and war crimes, our cities and villages were destroyed, the natural resources of our country were looted, and the Khojaly genocide, one of the most terrible tragedies of our time, was committed.
As result of the 44-day Patriotic War, which began on 27 September, 2020, in response to Armenia’s new invasion plans, the next attempt at military aggression and successive provocations, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan defeated the Armenian army and won a historic victory. Azerbaijan freed its land from 30 years of occupation, restored its territorial integrity and fulfilled the resolutions of the UN Security Council.
On 19 September, 2023, an anti-terrorist operation was launched in order to prevent large-scale provocations committed in the Karabakh economic region of Azerbaijan, to disarm and remove the remnants of the Armenian armed forces from our lands, and to restore the constitutional structure of Azerbaijan in those areas. As a result of the operation, which lasted only 23 hours and ended on 20 September, the brave Azerbaijani Army fulfilled all the tasks set before it with high professionalism.
Thus, as a result of the next brilliant Victory, the sovereignty of Azerbaijan was fully restored. By means of the glorious Victory, which is of exceptional significance in the life of the Azerbaijani people, today the Azerbaijani people, today the State Flag of Azerbaijan flies majestically in all territories where our sovereignty is founded.
