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In comments during a visit to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, President Ilham Aliyev ruled out on December 21 any compromise on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Aliyev called on Armenia to \"take a constructive position in the negotiations\" over Karabakh and warned Armenia \"not to look for excuses trying to buy time.\" He further stressed that \"Azerbaijan will never grant independence to Nagorno-Karabakh\" and noted that the Azerbaijani economy is seven times bigger than that of Armenia, with a military budget equal to the total Armenian state budget.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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