Azerbaijan marked five years since the second Karabakh war with a military parade celebrating victory and regional peace, as President Ilham Aliyev announced plans to align the country's armed forces with NATO standards following a US-brokered agreement with Armenia ending decades of conflict.
Aliyev celebrated the Victory Day as a momentous achievement for the country breaking from its past, crediting the victory to strategic economic and military developments, while highlighting ongoing reconstruction in Karabakh.
