AZERIS TO DRAW NEW MAP TO RESTORE ORIGINAL PLACENAMES IN KARABAKH

Trend news agency
Dec 16 2004

BAKU, 16.12.04. A total of 2.2bn manats (about 448,000 dollars) have
been allocated from the Azerbaijani state budget for the development
of a new topographic map of Nagornyy Karabakh, Trend has quoted the
head of the executive authorities of the town of Xocali, MP Elman
Mammadov, as saying.

He said the placenames given by the Armenians in the Soviet period
not only on the territory of Karabakh itself, but also in the
adjacent Goranboy District will now correspondent to their historical
equivalents. Mammadov said more than 20 residential settlements had
been Armenianized in Xocali alone, but in the years of independence
the places received their original names.

The new map of Nagornyy Karabakh is being prepared jointly by
specialists from the Institute of Cartography under the National
Academy of Sciences and the State Committee on land and cartography.