Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during a ceremony unveiling a statute of Azerbaijani opera singer in Baku, remarked that, “I am sure that Azerbaijan will soon restore its territorial integrity.”

Aliyev made the remark at a ceremony unveiling a statute of the singer Bulbul, a People’s Artsist of the USSR, who was born in Shoushi.

The Azerbaijani president, in his address, noted that, “Shusha has been under Armenian occupation for twenty years.”

Aliyev continued the Bulbul reference by saying: “At the same time we have undergone cultural genocide. Our religious, historical and cultural monuments were destroyed. The bust of Bulbul was riddled with Armenian bullets. Bulbul’s house in Shusha was destroyed.”

Azerbaijan’s president concluded by saying that: “We will never allow a second Armenian state being established on historical Azerbaijani lands, and we will restore our territorial integrity absolutely. The monument of Bulbul will again be erected in Shusha. I am confident that we will participate in the opening of this monument, and that the national flag of Azerbaijan will wave in Khankendi and Shusha”.