Even if Azerbaijan’s authorities do not give any security guarantees, Chairman of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians Grigory Aivazyan will try to arrive in Baku and run for Azerbaijan’s presidency.
“I have been nominated and I am doing my best to get registered. Everything depends on Azerbaijan’s response. But I am a candidate like Rustam Ibrahimbekov, who is an expatriate. We are waiting for security guarantees from Baku every day,” he said.
The well-known dramatist and film director Rustam Ibrahimbekov has renounced his Russian citizenship to run for the presidency in Azerbaijan, which is scheduled for mid-October.
Aivazyan believes his major rival is Azerbaijan’s incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, but he is sure that he has ample opportunities for being elected Azerbaijan’s president provided democratic elections are held in the country.
“We are going to address our message to the Azerbaijani people in the Azerbaijani language by means of mass media and keep on struggling to gain victory. We have a 100-point program. Much has to be changed in Azerbaijan. First of all, we must put an end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. This is our cornerstone. We must find a fair solution to the territorial problem and return public property to the people,” he said.