President Ilham Aliyev: International institutions are not coping with their responsibilities

Baku, December 3, AzerTAc “What is happening in the world demonstrates that international institutions are not coping with their responsibilities and not living up to the hopes pinned on them. This also applies to our case where the OSCE has been a mediator for over 20 years. This also applies to matters that are within the remit of the UN. Therefore, in principle, the world is experiencing a deformation of international institutions, which is a very worrying and dangerous trend,” President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in his interview to “Russia-24” Russian State Television and Broadcasting Company. The head of state said: “I think that leading countries of the world should say their resolute word not only through statements, but also through respect for the decisions that are made. Or decisions are not made but actions are taken nonetheless – we have seen this many times in the modern world not so long ago. Therefore, scrapping the existing mechanism of international cooperation will lead to a total chaos. It is difficult to come up with something new. It is even more difficult to reform the existing international institutions because there are restrictions in this regard. I think that at this historical period responsibility falls on leading countries of the world. They should not violate international law in the first place. They should support international law. But, unfortunately, this often does not happen.”