Novruz Mammadov would even say that Azerbaijan has already seized Martakert and Askeran districts and has besieged Stepanakert, NKR President's Spokesman David Babayan has told ArmInfo, when commenting on Deputy Head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov's remark that the territories seized by Azerbaijani armed forces in April are as large as 2,500 to 3,000 ha.
As regards Mammadov's remark that the Armenian president "had better think of a castle in the air rather than hoping for those lands," Babayan says that Mammadov most likely meant Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, who "will never see the territories of Karabakh". "Mammadov just used the surname of the Armenian president, hinting at the Azerbaijani president," Babayan says. To note, Novruz Mammadov, deputy head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, chief of the administration's foreign relations department told reporters on Wednesday that "Sargsyan had better think of a castle in the air rather than hoping for those lands" seized by Azerbaijan during the April war. He added that the territories seized by Azerbaijani armed forces in April are as large as 2,500 to 3,000 ha.