Aliyev’s adviser says Azerbaijan making peace not only with Armenia’s government but with its people

The Trump administration demonstrated a lot of dedication to our agenda of peace,” Hikmet Hajiyev, foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, told The Washington Post.

According to Hajiyev, Armenia and Azerbaijan are struggling to strengthen peace.

“Both governments, Azerbaijan and Armenia, are making an uphill struggle of strengthening the peace,” he said. “But some in Congress are introducing completely unnecessary and divisive legislative acts. With the Biden and Blinken administration, unfortunately, we had a lot of misunderstanding, and they inflicted a lot of damage.”

Aliyev’s adviser also noted that Azerbaijan is strengthening economic interdependence with Armenia by supplying oil products and facilitating grain shipments to the Armenian market.

“It may seem symbolic, but along with symbolism there’s really important geopolitical connotations,” Hajiyev said. “We are making peace not only with the government of Armenia, but with the people of Armenia.”