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New territorial claims?: Baku starts “exporting” idea on Yerevan’s belonging to Azerbaijan
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Azeri president Aliev is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.
By ARIS GHAZINYAN
A trilateral meeting between the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia is planned in St. Petersburg as part of a June 17-19 economic forum in the Russian city.
The main peculiarity of this meeting is, however, that it will be held in an atmosphere when under pressure from Azerbaijani leadership the Azeri society is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.
In April year Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated in Estonian capital Tallinn:
“The Armenian state was established on historically Azeri lands. It is common knowledge. Immediately after proclaiming its independence in 1918 the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan made a decision to give Irevan to Armenia as their capital.”
Aliyev has made such statements repeatedly over the past few years.
At one of the forums of the leaders of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations Aliyev stated: “In 1918 an Armenian state was created on Azeri lands which we let this state have Irevan, one of the major cultural centers of Azerbaijan, as its capital.”
And here’s the quote from another speech of the Azeri president: “In 1918, when the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan was formed, it granted the city of Irevan to Armenia. The Irivan khanate is a primordial Azerbaijani land. I want to repeat it: Armenians had come to this region as guests…”
In April 2008, a question was raised in the Azerbaijani parliament to rename one of the Azeri capital Baku’s boulevards “Irevan Avenue”.
“Irevan is one of the ancient cities of Azerbaijan. And President Ilham Aliyev during his meeting with citizens stressed the need for recovering the ancient Azerbaijani city Irevan,” said Azeri lawmaker Musa Guliyev representing the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party during a meeting in parliament.
The process of laying claims to Yerevan started still under Heydar Aliyev, the former president and father of today’s president held as national hero in Azerbaijan. (Heydar Aliyev died in late 2003, with Aliyev Jr. “inheriting” the presidency).
For example, on February 2, 1999 the Bakinskiy Rabochiy (Baku Worker) newspaper published Aliyev’s appeal to the historians: “We must create such works so that they are constantly and in a coherent form prove the affiliation of lands on which Armenia is situated today to Azerbaijan. We must do it. We must open the way for future generations.”
Nevertheless, it is this year that has marked a new stage in “Yerevan’s misappropriation.”
While in previous years the target of this thesis was the “domestic consumer”, then beginning in the spring of 2010 this thesis has been “for export”.
And the evidence of this became the speech of Ilham Aliyev in Tallinn and the presentation of the book “Irivan Khanate” in Azerbaijan.
Deputy chairman of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party Ali Ahmedov stressed during the book launch that it “confirms in due manner the statement of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, is Azerbaijani territory, and is a reply to his appeal not to forget about the lost Azerbaijani lands.”
It is under such conditions that a new meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan is being held in St. Petersburg.
One should take a very biased position not to notice what is obvious: the Karabakh problem is just a new stage of the old project aimed at eliminating the Armenian presence in the region.
And the target of this new stage is not Nagorno-Karabakh, but Yerevan as the capital of the Armenian State.
New territorial claims?: Baku starts “exporting” idea on Yerevan’s belonging to Azerbaijan
Photolure
Azeri president Aliev is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.
By ARIS GHAZINYAN
A trilateral meeting between the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia is planned in St. Petersburg as part of a June 17-19 economic forum in the Russian city.
The main peculiarity of this meeting is, however, that it will be held in an atmosphere when under pressure from Azerbaijani leadership the Azeri society is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.
In April year Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated in Estonian capital Tallinn:
“The Armenian state was established on historically Azeri lands. It is common knowledge. Immediately after proclaiming its independence in 1918 the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan made a decision to give Irevan to Armenia as their capital.”
Aliyev has made such statements repeatedly over the past few years.
At one of the forums of the leaders of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations Aliyev stated: “In 1918 an Armenian state was created on Azeri lands which we let this state have Irevan, one of the major cultural centers of Azerbaijan, as its capital.”
And here’s the quote from another speech of the Azeri president: “In 1918, when the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan was formed, it granted the city of Irevan to Armenia. The Irivan khanate is a primordial Azerbaijani land. I want to repeat it: Armenians had come to this region as guests…”
In April 2008, a question was raised in the Azerbaijani parliament to rename one of the Azeri capital Baku’s boulevards “Irevan Avenue”.
“Irevan is one of the ancient cities of Azerbaijan. And President Ilham Aliyev during his meeting with citizens stressed the need for recovering the ancient Azerbaijani city Irevan,” said Azeri lawmaker Musa Guliyev representing the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party during a meeting in parliament.
The process of laying claims to Yerevan started still under Heydar Aliyev, the former president and father of today’s president held as national hero in Azerbaijan. (Heydar Aliyev died in late 2003, with Aliyev Jr. “inheriting” the presidency).
For example, on February 2, 1999 the Bakinskiy Rabochiy (Baku Worker) newspaper published Aliyev’s appeal to the historians: “We must create such works so that they are constantly and in a coherent form prove the affiliation of lands on which Armenia is situated today to Azerbaijan. We must do it. We must open the way for future generations.”
Nevertheless, it is this year that has marked a new stage in “Yerevan’s misappropriation.”
While in previous years the target of this thesis was the “domestic consumer”, then beginning in the spring of 2010 this thesis has been “for export”.
And the evidence of this became the speech of Ilham Aliyev in Tallinn and the presentation of the book “Irivan Khanate” in Azerbaijan.
Deputy chairman of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party Ali Ahmedov stressed during the book launch that it “confirms in due manner the statement of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, is Azerbaijani territory, and is a reply to his appeal not to forget about the lost Azerbaijani lands.”
It is under such conditions that a new meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan is being held in St. Petersburg.
One should take a very biased position not to notice what is obvious: the Karabakh problem is just a new stage of the old project aimed at eliminating the Armenian presence in the region.
And the target of this new stage is not Nagorno-Karabakh, but Yerevan as the capital of the Armenian State.
Don't they know that Yerevan was founded by the Urartians, predecessors of the Armenian people?
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