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The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is filled with hatred towards Armenia and he doesn’t conceal it. Ilham Aliyev used the social network on Tuesday 20th November to unleash a large sum of disparaging, dishonoring and abusive tweets against neighboring Armenia. After the twitter clash, many world leading and outstanding news sites like Reuters, RIA Novosti, Global Post and France Press turned to the issue.

“The Armenian lobby is our main enemy and we are the main enemy for them,” posted President Aliyev from his official tweeter account. Then he added: “Armenia is a country of no value.” It is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad, a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands.”

Most of the tweets were from the speech given on 16th November at a meeting of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary, according to Aliyev's official website. The sudden broadside of tweets posted Tuesday afternoon prompted a top Armenian lawmakers and media experts to compare the messages with Nazi German strategy of propaganda. They consider them to be aimed at disparaging and humiliating Armenia.

“Like a troll, President Aliyev disparages Armenia and his words are downright abusive. In the full text of his speech we can highlight expressions like "there are all the freedoms in Azerbaijan — freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of the Internet." Just the type of freedom of speech and of the Internet, presumably, that allows one to mouth off about one's nearest neighbor. What a shame, then, that the same privilege doesn't apply if you want to Twitter-burn closer to home,” writes Global Post.

“We will continue our efforts to isolate Armenia,” Aliyev said, his Twitter page adorned in a blue sunburst with the motto “We turn initiatives into reality!”

President Aliev also tweeted that “The gap between Armenia and Azerbaijan is already very large and keeps expanding day by day and resolving that conflict is the "main focus" of Azerbaijan's foreign policy. And by "resolving," he means “seeing the Azerbaijani flag fly over Nagorno-Karabakh once more.” Such kind of solution of the issue is “utopian” for Azerbaijan and the gap he speaks about is called “Nagorno-Karabakh.” Armenia claims its absolute historic ownership of the region.

It should be mentioned that the enmity and tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia exist since 1990s. The conflict is centered around the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is populated by ethnic Armenians and who, backed by Armenia, declared the territory an independent republic on December 10 1991. In May 1994 Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia signed a ceasefire, which, despite violations by Azerbaijan, is still effective.