"We should create a potential for a strong army for being able to liberate the occupied territories," Azeri President Ilham Aliyev stated when addressing students of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) Military Lyceum after H. Aliyev. The material and technical basis of the national army of Azerbaijan is strengthening and skilled personnel is being trained, he remarked. In case of need they "will have to liberate our lands by force," the President emphasized, reported Trend agency.