AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 30 2005

AUSTRIAN-AZERBAIJAN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION ADDRESSES TO UNESCO
[March 30, 2005, 17:51:27]

Members of Austria-Azerbaijan Academic Association functioning in
Vienna on behalf of the Azerbaijan communities in this country have
adopted an Address to UNESCO in connection with attempt of the
Armenians to carry out in the Azerbaijani city Shusha “archeological
excavations”.

In the document, it is marked that it is senselessly to search for
“the Armenian trace’ around Shusha. It is also underlined the fact
that Shusha and also all territory of Karabakh historically belongs
to Azerbaijanis, has found reflection in works of the European and
Russian researchers. The carried out researches of a jaw of
azihkantrop (Azikh human) also have confirmed that Azerbaijanis are
natives of this territory. Statements of the Armenians that in
territory the monuments concerning by the period of the neolith while
in all researches the fact of presence of monuments in territory of
Karabakh proves to be true will be found, concerning to Last Bronze
Period, – are ridiculous and rather far from a reality. This is
simply next fabrication of the Armenians, trying to prove that they
ostensibly are `the native population’ of Nagorno Karabakh.

Being based on historic facts, the Association calls on the
international organizations, including UNESCO, to protest against
attempt of the Armenian “researchers” to forge history. Similar
researches completely contradict positions of the Hague Convention of
UNESCO `On protection of cultural values during confrontations’.