AZERBAIJAN DISTORTS SOUTH CAUCASUS HISTORY TO SATISFY NATIONAL INTERESTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.09.2007 14:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Last year the National Academy of Sciences of
the Republic of Armenia warned of Azerbaijani scientific society’s
engagement in conjunctive rewriting of South Caucasian peoples’
history with the purpose of political service to the despotic and
anti-democratic state, director of the institute of national and
strategic studies at the RA defense ministry, adviser to the defense
minister, political scientist, senior expert of ethnic and national
security political sciences, major general Hayk Kotanjian said in an
interview posted at the defense ministry’s web site.

"The fact of total distortion and suppression of true information
in Azerbaijan is reflected in the statements of Freedom House and
is described as one of the most vivid signs of the anti-democratic
regime of this country. Generally, the menace is that the distortion
of the facts committed under personal supervision of the head of
state acquired a form of systematic destruction of the possibility to
build trust between the Armenian and Azeri people. Modern and ancient
history of the Armenian people published by authoritative scientific
schools of the world is being falsified.

In an aspiration to undermine trust to valid Armenian sources, the
"denouncers" accuse of falsification not only modern authoritative
schools but also generations of historians and figures from many
states who published works during centuries-long communication with
the Armenian people.

The Aliyev regime ascribes to Armenians the crimes against
"Azeri people" even during the times when Turkic ancestors of
modern Azeris had not penetrated from Central Asia into the South
Caucasus. These faked-up materials are filled with terms ‘Azerbaijan’
and ‘Azeri’. These terms are also used for description of Indo-European
and Caucasian peoples who lived in Eastern Transcaucasia long before
Turks’ invasion.

Thus, the Aliyev regime canonizes the whole scope of centuries-old
cultural and historical activities of Medians, Persians, Armenians,
Talishians, Lezghins, Avarians, Udins and others as ‘Azeri’. All
this is nothing but attempts to poison the good neighborhood between
Armenians and the heirs of their historical neighbors – the ethnic
minorities of today’s Azerbaijan," Hayk Kotanjian said.