"STRUGGLE FOR KARABAKH" BY NURIDE ATASHI PUBLISHED IN GERMANY

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 7 2007

Writer Nuride Atashi’s book "Struggle for Karabakh" was published in
Germany on the initiative of Cultural Institution named after Nizami
Ganjavi in Berlin, Germany, Ateshi told the APA.

She stated the first chapter of 6-chapter book contains thorough
information about the history, past of Azerbaijan, detailed history
of Caucasian Albania, literature, ancient culture, great people of our
country. The second chapter is dedicated to the present condition and
economic growth in Azerbaijan. The third chapter is dedicated to the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the causes of the conflict, systematic
and organized division of Azerbaijani lands (Darband, Iravan,
Zangazur) and planned banishment of Azerbaijanis from their original
lands. Information is given about the tragedy of January 20, Khojaly
genocide, its causes. The fourth chapter is dedicated to Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev and other Azerbaijani officials’ approaches and
concrete opinions on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Interview with
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, head of Azerbaijani
parliamentary delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov on Nagorno Karabakh
has been published in this chapter. The fifth chapter is dedicated to
the chronicle of official negotiations carried out for the peaceful
solution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2006. Ateshi’s interviews
with Bundestag members on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are given in
the 6th chapter of the book. Interviews with the chief of Bundestag
Caucasus Friendship Group Stefan Reich, parliamentarian Vili Vimmer
and Secretary of State of German Interior Ministry Dr. Cristof Bergner
are also published in the book. The author of the preface of the book
is the dean of Potsdam State University Prof. Vilfrid Fuhrmann.