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Tazeen Akhtar | Islamabad<\/p>\nTazeen Akhtar | Islamabad<\/p>\n
The Republic of Azerbaijan is celebrating Nov 08 as the Victory Day of 44 days Second Karabakh war at the end of which the brave soldiers of the motherland pushed the illegal occupant Armenians back and liberated the territories including Shush the historic culture heritage city from the occupation.<\/p>\n
On this day in 2020, after 44 days of war, the Azerbaijani Army liberated Shusha – the cultural capital of Azerbaijan, the strategic heart of Karabakh, and a city considered an “impregnable fortress.” One day later, Armenia was forced to accept Azerbaijan’s terms.On 3 December 2020, President Ilham Aliyev signed an order establishing November 8 as Victory Day. In 2026, Azerbaijan celebrated its 6th anniversary.<\/p>\n
The Second Karabakh War – 27 September to 8 November 2020<\/p>\n
The background goes back nearly 30 years.In the early 1990s, as a result of Armenia’s occupation policy, approximately 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory fell under occupation. Four UN Security Council resolutions adopted in 1993 – 822, 853, 874 and 884 – demanded the immediate, unconditional and complete withdrawal of occupying forces.<\/p>\n
For three decades, they remained unimplemented.<\/p>\n
On 27 September 2020, the Second Karabakh War – known in Azerbaijan as the Patriotic War – began.For 44 days, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces moved forward every day, not taking a single step back. City after city, village after village was liberated. Finally, on 8 November, Shusha was liberated.<\/p>\n
President Aliyev announced the historic news that night in an address to the nation from Baku’s Alley of Martyrs.The war ended with the liberation of large parts of occupied territory and the withdrawal of Armenian forces from other areas without further military operations, under the trilateral statement of 10 November 2020.<\/p>\n
As Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Pakistan Irfan Shakiroglu Davudov said at the Victory Day reception in Islamabad:”By liberating its territories, Azerbaijan at the same time fulfilled the four UN Security Council resolutions of 1993, which had been lying dead on paper for 30 years. This great Victory was achieved thanks to the courage of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, the political, diplomatic and military vision of Supreme Commander-in-Chief President Ilham Aliyev, and above all, thanks to the unity of the Azerbaijani people.”<\/p>\n