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Bakour Karapetyan calls on Ilham Aliyev to stop distorting historical facts
11.03.2009 21:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian writer of political essays Bakour
Karapetyan appealed to the President of Azerbaijan with a direct
letter. In the message addressed to PanARMENIAN.Net it is particularly
stated that the Armenian writer received a warm welcome by the border
guards at Nakhichevan Customs. `Taking the opportunity, I suggest
soothing the passions of your historians and not letting them falsify
or distort the history of the peoples living in the territory of
Azerbaijan, namely: the Talysh, Kurds, Lezghins, Avars, Persians, and
Armenians.’ The falsification of the history as we have all become
convinced of worsens the stability in the region, causes an atmosphere
of intolerance and hostility among the neighbouring countries,’
Karapetyan emphasized. He also said that Azeri people can feel free to
visit Yerevan. `We will show them the medieval sources that give
evidence about the history of the peoples living in the territory of
today’s Azerbaijan. Your people, particularly the Talysh, living in
Azerbaijan and Iran, and also the Lezghins and Avars, part of which
are in Russia now, have the right to know their true history,’ as is
stated in the letter addressed to the president of Azerbaijan.