AZERI VERSION OF THOMAS DE WAAL’S BOOK ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESENTED IN BAKU

Trend News Agency
March 5 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 5 March / Trend News corr J. Babayeva/ On 5 March,
the Azeri version of the book by the British journalist Thomas de Waal
‘ Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war ‘ was
presented in Baku. It was translated into Azeri with the financial
support of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan.

" Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war ‘ tells
about the history of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the on-going
processes in the region".

According to the Head of the PR Department at the US Embassy
in Azerbaijan, Jonathan Henik, the Embassy does not bear the
responsibility for the thoughts of the writer.

"We are sure not everybody in Azerbaijan and Armenia will agree with
the several facts reflected in the book," he said.

According to Thomas de Waal, the book was written in order to realize
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "I wanted to realize the core of the
conflict, but could not find enough information about that. So,
I decided to collect the facts and to compile them into a book,
thus trying to realize the core of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict."

In February 2006, the English version of the book was presented
in Baku.

Thomas de Waal is Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace
Reporting in London.