IRAN TO HOST CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO HISTORICAL DISTORTIONS IN AZERI LITERATURE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 20:28 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Numerous materials with false information about
Armenia and Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan published for 20 years in
Azerbaijan. These materials represent an Armenian as an enemy, thereby
enhancing the image of the enemy among the Azerbaijani people, Vladimir
Zakharov, Deputy Director of Caucasian Studies Institute of Moscow
State Institute of International Relations told journalists in Yerevan.

"In these materials Armenians are presented as the perpetrators
of the Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Baku, and the worst thing is
Baku distributes these materials and literature in the West. Why the
Armenian side does not respond to these actions, why does not initiate
steps in this direction? After all, wrong views are spread in Europe,"
the political scientist said.

Vladimir Zakharov informed that Iran will host a conference devoted
to historical distortions in Azerbaijani literature in May this year.

On January 13, 1990, the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the
Armenian pogroms of Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200
thousand were exiled in the period of January 13-19. The exact number
of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried
out into the crimes.

On the above-mentioned date, a crowd numbering 50 thousand people
divided into groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On
January 17, the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign
Ministers and European Council to protect Armenians and render
assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of
U.S. Senators sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns
over the violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and
called for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.