President Ilham Aliyev’s historic visit to the USA is not only the focus of Azerbaijan but of the entire world. The meetings at the White House, the messages delivered, and the important documents signed are being discussed with great interest down to every detail. The world’s attention is fixed on Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. This visit and the Washington meetings have become a vivid example of the complete failure of the pressure mechanisms that the West has tried to impose on Azerbaijan in recent years, and have been engraved into our latest history.

Axar.az reports that Aynur Jamal, head of “Telegraf Holding,” in an interview, commented on the Joint Declaration signed in Washington.

She stated that for many years the Biden-Blinken administration, Macron, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, and the international media network under their influence worked in the same direction—to force Baku into concessions:

“For this, three main tools were activated:

Political pressure – continuous statements and biased resolutions were adopted to soften Azerbaijan’s firm position on the Karabakh issue, especially after the 2020 victory.

Information warfare – systematic defamation campaigns were organized in global media, trying to portray Azerbaijan as an ‘isolated’ state to the international community.

Threats of sanctions – economic and political sanction messages were conveyed to Baku through unofficial channels to induce a change in decisions.

However, the authors of this strategy did not take one point into account: Ilham Aliyev is neither a leader who retreats under pressure nor one who softens his position in exchange for concessions. On the contrary, every attempt of pressure only hardened his stance further.

The Washington visit was an official confirmation of this reality. Yesterday, the circles that ‘dictated terms’ to Azerbaijan are now faced with irrefutable facts—the Karabakh region is fully under Azerbaijan’s control, borders have been restored, a new security format has been created in the region, and all this happened under terms set by Azerbaijan, not the West.

This visit was also a psychological turning point. Because now in Western capitals, Azerbaijan is accepted not as a ‘weak link to be pressured’ but as the ‘key figure in the South Caucasus region.’ With the messages delivered at the meetings in the USA, Ilham Aliyev openly stated: Azerbaijan’s national interests are not subject to negotiation and never will be.

As a result, the ‘concession plan’ pursued for years by the Biden-Blinken administration, Macron, and European institutions remained only on paper and became ‘void.’ The victorious president’s diplomacy in Washington once again confirmed the new reality of Azerbaijan, strengthened by both military victory and political determination.

This was not just a successful visit—it was the complete collapse of the pressure system formed by the West for years. It was Azerbaijan’s victory not only on the battlefield but also in diplomacy, and a celebration of the world’s recognition of this triumph...

Ahead of us lies an intense work plan: the implementation of the provisions reflected in the documents signed in Washington. Keeping the promises made. As Ilham Aliyev said, our word is our bond!”