One of the most prominent proponents of the reconquest ideology is Ruben Vardanyan, who led a separatist regime in a ghost city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
The speech coincided with Israeli finance minister Avigdor Liberman’s April 24 visit to Azerbaijan.
"It was Armenia who started the conflict. The Azerbaijanis want to make peace, yet this is how they are being repaid.”
Fizuli, on Iran's border, was one of the cities that were destroyed during the First Karabakh War.