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Armenia offers Babylon-era maps to Azerbaijan to demarcate borders

PanARMENIAN
Armenia –

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev statement that the process of clarifying the borders with Armenia will be based on all the maps beginning from 1918 and to those that existed before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Aliyev maintained that according to some of the maps of 1918-1920, Yerevan and the province of Syunik were allegedly part of Azerbaijan.

"We are not against researching maps. But why limit ourselves to the 20th century? We can start from the maps created in Babylon in the 6th century BC, or by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, or by Strabo in the 1st century BC, or created by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, or from the maps created by Pliny the Elder in the same period, and then to continue with numerous Latin, Byzantine, Arabic and other geographical descriptions and maps of later periods. Armenia has no fear of not finding itself on those maps," A.

However, given that we are interested in the effective work of the future Commission on demarcation and border security, the Republic of Armenia believes that this work should be based on maps that are accepted by both sides and have legal value.

Aliyev has said on numerous occasions that the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Sevan and Syunik are all "historical lands" of Azerbaijan.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS