Global stability won't be achieved in coming years, Azerbaijan's Aliyev tells Euronews

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Global stability won't be achieved in coming years, Azerbaijan's Aliyev tells Euronews  Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev told Euronews that global stability is unlikely in the coming months or even years, stressing the need for realistic expectations about resolving major conflicts.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/14/global-stability-wont-be-achieved-in-coming-years-azerbaijans-aliyev-tells-euronews  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says global stability won't be achieved in the coming

00:06months or even years as the world enters a new order.

00:10Euronews spoke to President Aliyev on the sidelines of the 12th Global Baku Forum.

00:16We're seeing a lot of geopolitical changes around the world. Where do you stand on the

00:22significant ones that we're seeing, especially around this region?

00:26Well, in the region, of course, it's important to protect the region from any crises around

00:32us. Unfortunately, the region of Southern Caucasus for decades was an area of confrontation

00:39and hostility. So now we have relatively quiet period, so we need to concentrate on that

00:47to build security mechanisms that will be inclusive, to eliminate any threat of another

00:57military confrontation, and to try to live in neighborhood as we used to in the times

01:06of Soviet Union. Yes, we were not independent countries. We could not actually plan our

01:12future. We were largely dependent on the Soviet center, but at least there was active

01:20interaction between the Southern Caucasian republics. So we have this experience and

01:27we need to just keep it in our mind.

01:31Aliyev was not, however, optimistic about the concept of lasting peace, particularly

01:36with regard to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

01:40In terms of your vision for the future, where do you see this global stability going eventually?

01:48Do you think we will achieve it?

01:50I prefer to be realistic. I don't think that we will achieve stability in the coming months

01:58or even coming years. And if we talk about war between Russia and Ukraine, even if the

02:05war stops, it is not a guarantee that it will not erupt again. We had a time for almost

02:1430 years when we had ceasefire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was achieved

02:20spring 1994. But that didn't mean that war ended. It just transformed. And the war only

02:29ends when you have peace agreement. Even now, after almost five years since the Second Karabakh

02:35War, we don't have peace deal with Armenia. Yes, we have quiet period, no casualties,

02:41and this is a big advantage of today's situation. But until peace agreement is signed, the stability

02:47is not here.

02:49More than 300 world leaders from over 60 countries have gathered at the forum, where they will

02:54spend the next few days exploring solutions to address global challenges in health, conflict

03:00and the economy.

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