‘We are at the stage where international law, its legal nature is being denied’ – from Erkin Gadirli’s speech at PACE spring 2022 session

“…we often hear from Russian politicians, phrases like “we will bomb Warsaw”, “our tanks will be in Prague again”, Berlin will beg us”, “Baltic states are fake”, “Ukraine never existed” and so on. One of them, namely Mikhail Delyagin, member of the Russian State Duma, lower house of the Russian federal parliament went far to say that Russia could and perhaps even should use tactical nuclear weapon against Azerbaijan. Guess why? Because Azerbaijan provides humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Such words should not come this easy, and we are at the stage where international law, its legal nature is being denied.”

Full speech in English is here: