Monitoring Desk: Azerbaijan celebrated 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijani Army on Tuesday with main military parade at Azadlig Square which was attended by all three forces of Azerbaijan and a number of foreign heads of armies including from Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Israel.
Turkish Air Force participated in military parade with F-16 and F-5 fighter jets which attended Air Show in the skies of Baku Bay. It is pertinent to mention that eight F-5 type aircrafts belonging to the Turkish Air Force Aircraft Turkish Aircraft arrived in Azerbaijan to take part in the celebrations dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijani Army.
It may be mentioned that the Military (Armed Forces of Azerbaijan) was established on 26 June 1918 in Ganja by the decision of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR). Azeri army was dissolved after the collapse of ADR in 1920 and re-established on October 9, 1991. Today, Azerbaijan is considered as the most powerful state in the South Caucasus for its military power having Land Forces, Air Forces, Air Defense Forces and Naval Forces.
The President Ilham Aliyev while addressing the parade maintained that Nagorno-Karabakh region is primordially Azerbaijani territory and Baku will never accept its occupation by the Armenia and Azerbaijan will reinstate its control over Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territory that is also held by ethnic Armenian forces.
It is pertinent to mention that Azerbaijani territory that was seized by Armenian-backed forces during a war that killed more than 30,000 people before a 1994 cease-fire.
President Aliyev stressed the factor of military potential currently dominates in the world affairs’
“International law does not work, because if it did, we [would have] liberated our occupied territories long ago,” he said. “The war is not over. Only its first phase has ended.”
Some 4,000 military personnel took part in the parade and more than 70 aircraft and 240 pieces of military equipment, including Belarusian-made Polonez and Israeli-made LORA missiles were on display.
