DemAz.org, Azerbaijan
Feb 14 2008
`Echo’: The Beginnings of Armenian Expansion
14.02.2008
Ruling party proposes to make the fight against false propaganda of
aggressor more active.
Recently in conference hall of the Ataturk Center under the
leadership of representatives of ruling party `round table’ was held
on `Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict: the main goals of fight against
Armenian information provocations’. Representatives of parliament and
leading historians and scientific researchers partook in the event.
Amongst them there was vice speaker of Milli Mejlis, Bahar Muradova.
With opening address executive secretary and deputy chairman of `Yeni
Azerbaijan’ party, Ali Ahmadov, opened the event. He drew attention
of participants to recent history of Armenian claims to historical
territories of Azerbaijan. Accordingly to him, today given issue
preserves urgency due to continuing Armenian expansion. The only
possible development of events, following to MM deputy, in this
situation will be active fight of Azerbaijan against Armenians’
tricks. With special regret deputy points to the fact that present
Armenian state was created on aboriginal Azerbaijani territories.
`But they, Armenians don’t stop even now, as known, 20% of
Azerbaijani territories are under Armenian occupation’, underlines
Ahmadov. Moreover, it is with caution that he points to the fact that
today Armenians make active propaganda on alleged belonging of
Nakhchivan to Armenia. `All this say that Armenian provocations
should be operatively repulsed’, executive secretary of `Yeni
Azerbaijan’ party calls on.
Accordingly to him, unless our territories are released and Armenian
occupation is stopped, the fight should go on. Chairman of ruling
party recalled recent statement of president of Azerbaijan that
Yerevan, present capital of Armenia, historically is Azerbaijani
city, it was given to Armenians mistakenly in the past.
We should remind that president made this statement on January 17
this year in Guzanli village while visiting Agdam region. Later this
theme was discussed in details at the first meeting of spring session
of Milli Mejlis, on February 1.
Executive secretary of `Yeni Azerbaijan’ party reminded that as time
showed Armenian side is not satisfied by occupation of our
territories: Azerbaijanis were forcibly displaced, moreover, total
ethnic cleaning on currently occupied territories took place. `It is
sweeping historical unjust which unfortunately goes on today’,
chairman of ruling party says.
Then historian, MM deputy, Yagub Mamadov, took floor. He more than
half an hour told in details about Armenians’ tricks. They being
alien nation in our region pursued aggressive policy against
Azerbaijanis for many years. He also underscored that conduct of
Armenian side forces Azerbaijan to be in constant readiness for
attack. Deputy tells that having occupied 20% of our territories,
Armenians don’t know rest and now they are claiming to Nakhchivan. At
the same time Armenians, as deputy thinks, have formed some delusion
of misappropriation of cultural values of the nation of the region,
including of Azerbaijanis. `Over and over again they attempt to
present themselves – Armenians as the most ancient nation of our
region, though everyone knows that they arrived to South Caucasus
from Balkan peninsula’, – deputy stresses.
Then he went back to historical past of Yerevan city, Azerbaijani
version of which is Irevan. Accordingly to him, historical documents
of tsarist Russia contain statistic facts on population of Irevan
khanate, which clearly define that Azerbaijanis made up majority of
this region. He referred to different Armenian and Russian historians
who confirm these facts in their works. Deputy also informed that
significant aspect is toponymy of this region. For many years
Armenians purposefully changed Azerbaijani names of inhabited places
to Armenian ones. `Thus they are attempting to erase Azerbaijani
trace and to prove to the world that they are masters of these
territories’, deputy said.
The words of historian and MM deputy, Yagub Mamadov, were welcomed by
participants of `round table’. At the same time executive secretary
of `Yeni Azerbaijan’ party, going back to the past of Yerevan and
mistaken giving it to Armenians focused on the fact than Azerbaijanis
should remember their history and recognize the right and the wrong
steps undertaken in the past. The matter is that during discussion of
this issue at MM meeting number of opposition MM deputies came out
against negative evaluation of the role of Azerbaijani government in
1918, to which ruling circles attribute mistaken decision on giving
Yerevan to Armenia. In the course of the event it was underlined that
for a long period of time Russia was involved in resettlement of
Armenians in Azerbaijan, thus creating Christian stronghold for
itself in Muslim country. Resettlement of Armenians in our country as
speechmakers said were specially enhanced gaining system nature after
signing between Iran and Russia Gulistan and Turkmanchay agrrements,
which divided our county into North and South Azerbaijan.
S. Rzayev