Azerbaijan wants peace, but it must be ready for war at any moment, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev said.

“We [i.e. Azerbaijan] do not want war. We want peace,” he said.

According to Aliyev, at the same time, however, Azerbaijan must be vigilant.

“We must be ready for war at any moment, as the course of processes in the world is such that it is impossible to predict what will happen tomorrow. The guarantor of our security is ourselves—the state, the people, and our armed forces,” the Azerbaijani president noted.