ACTUAL QUOTE
Joao SOARES, OSCE PA President:
“We agreed to the approach of Azerbaijan on the solution to the Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict. It was high time to solve the conflict and this opportunity must be seized”.
From the statement during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan in Baku, March 15, 2010
Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN, Turkish Prime Minister:
“The border was closed because the Armenians attacked our Azerbaijani brothers and occupied Nagorno-Karabakh. The UN also considers that occupation. When the Armenians leave those territories, we will open the border.”
From the interview with German weekly Die Zeit in Ankara, March 25, 2010
Bernard FASSIER, French co-chair of OSCE MG:
“Though Armenia wants to apply Kosovo precedent to Karabakh conflict, it is impossible. There is nothing common between Kosovo conflict and Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Kosovo is a conflict inside the country, Nagorno Karabakh is a conflict between two countries – Armenia and Azerbaijan. Karabakh has not been recognized by any country of the world, including Armenia itself”.
From the statement at the NATO PA “Rose Roth” seminar in Yerevan, March 12, 2010
Terry DAVIDSON, Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan:
“U.S. President and Secretary of State hope that the process on “Armenian genocide” will stop just in this point… We consider that Turkey and Armenia themselves should investigate what happened in 1915. The US supports normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations, including establishment of the historical commission to investigate the events of 1915. The US is trying to find peaceful solution to the Nagorno Karabakh and will continue efforts in this direction”.
From the statement to the press in Baku, March 16, 2010
Michael MCMAHON, US Congressman:
“I always supported regional cooperation, where Turkey and Azerbaijan are represented. These countries are doing everything to bring peace… Turkish-Armenian normalization and Nagorno-Karabakh peace process are increasing the peace hopes in the region. Adoption of the draft resolution recognizing the “Armenian genocide” – irresponsible!”.
From the statement to IA APA in Washington, March 5, 2010
Vartan OSKANIAN, Former Foreign Minister of Armenia:
“The Karabakh conflict is part of the triangle Turkey-Armenia-Azerbaijan, and this triangle is a direct result of the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey. The completion of the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, directly and indirectly dependent on the Karabakh settlement… The Armenian-Turkish process deadlocked, and the loss of chance for the Karabakh settlement, in turn, could jeopardize the delicate military balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan”.
From an article in PanARMENIAN.Net “A new start in the Caucasus”, March 12, 2010
Boris BEREZOWSKY, Former Russian oligarch:
“Armenia and Azerbaijan not to set hopes on Russia in the solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Russia would always prevent the efforts directed towards the conflict solution. Russia is interested to complicate the conflict to pursue its divide and rule policy. Present Russian politicians, who had no enough experience and education, only intended to use the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to earn money”.
From the statement PanArmenian.Net, March 13, 2010
The Armenians about the Armenians
Robert ARAKELOV, WRITING-BOOK OF KARABAKH, (beginning in the previous issues), COSTUME MADE FROM ENGLISH CLOTH
The master, looking at the costume from different sides, took the “meter measure ruler” and, coming near to the man, started to take the needed measures. But what is it? When the master put the “meter measure ruler” to the hand of the costume, he suddenly felt uncomfortably. First he didn’t understand himself that where this feeling came from, but it got stronger and stronger when he touched the costume each time. The master closed his eyes for a second and he felt that he was having a far, but still familiar and not-forgotten smell. Then the master took the man’s elbow, brought him to his working table and switched on the lamp. Spark of the light blazed up suddenly and it was too light that he hadn’t to look at each fold, each sewing. And the master knew his work! Yes, it was his work, but he couldn’t remember when and whom it was made for, he didn’t suspect any more that the costume was sewed by his hands.
The master, taking all measures and promising that it would be ready after a day, saying goodbye to the costumers, stayed at the atelier and started to remember. It wasn’t needed to think in vain if he organized special copy-book of orders each year, using for this clerk-book, saving in the atelier in iron safe. And the master, getting these copy-books one by one, started to turn over the pages. Soon he found what he was searching for: found at the copy-book which he entered four years ago. There was writing, usually done before receiving orders. The master read the beginning of the writing: January 17, 1985, Huseynov S., Eng. c. f. c. 21, sz. 52, h. 3. In his abbreviations Eng. c. was in the meaning of English cloth, f. c. – first control, sz. – size, and h. – height. There were also other numbers: size of breasts, largeness of shoulders, waist e. t. c. And the master remembered. Surely, he couldn’t remember the shapes of face – he wasn’t a painter, but he could imagine the figure. A bit bent old man, whom brought to the atelier the master’s cousin at that time, it seems they worked together with the customer in the same organization. The master also remembered that Guseynov came to all his 3 controls with his little grandchild and wasn’t tired of being proud of his son, father of the granddaughter, who was very far from there in a region and didn’t forget the parents and bought him such excellent cloth. The master also remembered: the consumer approved the costume very much and he promised to wear it so carefully that he could walk in it in the wedding of his grandchild. And he didn’t do what he promised… He remembered more and more things time by time, he remembered that, going to the society games in the town at times, he used to meet his client there and even play several parties of nard with him. But the master couldn’t see even for one time his client in the costume – maybe he kept it for the wedding of his grandchild in real. What could disjoin the host from his costume? Had he sold it? But it seems no. Maybe he put it in wardrobe with the other Azerbaijanis of Stepanakert? It was possible, because he wouldn’t stay long there among the wild crowd. But it seemed that he hadn’t better clothes than the costume, and what did he wear? The master, who spent nearly 12 hours of that day at the working-table, was tired and had a headache. He, taking the costume with himself, hurried up to home. The next day, going out of the home, the master went to the commissioner – director whom he had knew for a long time, he was a permanent buyer. Coming to the shop, he showed the costume to the director and asked him to say the name and address of the man who gave it here. As if he wanted to explain where the man could get such rare cloth. The director realized his wish and the master went to the given address. But how he felt when he was at the door of a flat of an old woman after twenty minutes, who was well-known in the surroundings, because you could get hand-made mulberry vodka from her at any time. The master, sending his son or grandson, himself needed her service sometimes when suddenly his friends, with whom he had been friend since the youth, came to him at unexpected time. The master knew that the old woman wasn’t alone, she lived with her granddaughter and daughter who was widow, and she was taking care of them with the money she earned from her job. She hadn’t any problem with the police and it was enough for her. When the master entered to the flat and asked how she got this costume given her a week ago in the commissioner, her granddaughter, not giving a chance to the woman even to open her mouth, started to reproach the woman:
– I told you not to take it, – it could be stolen. Their faces looked like a face of a thief.
– Whose face? – asked the master, and then the woman told the master that two men came to her nearly 10 days ago at night and suggested her to exchange the costume for 5 bottles of vodka. She exchanged the costume for 3 bottles of vodka.
– They were drunk, – added the woman, – they wouldn’t go without vodka, but she (showing her granddaughter) doesn’t understand this. I know this.
– But who were they, – her daughter interfered to the talking, – somebody was waiting for them in the yard; it seems he knew this. And I saw from window that they were three.
– Could you see the third man who stayed in the yard?
– No, it was too dark.
The master couldn’t get more information from them and returned to the atelier. But he didn’t work on the costume and gave it to his young worker. And he was ill at that night and nobody saw him in the atelier after this. The old master stopped sewing – don’t bring him sewing orders.
(to be continued)
RUINS
Yuri POMPEYEV, Academician of RANS, Professor of St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, (beginning in the previous issues)
I can’t continue without noticing one amendment on the Belovejsk contracts and behavior of Russia in the composition of CIS. Russia conquered all powers of the previous republics, including Azerbaijan, which were put to uniting; centralization process was strengthened, the republics, sentencing Russia to geopolitical seclusion, started to search for help not in Russia, but in foreign neighbors. How could Azerbaijan trust Russia if Russia returned Karabakh for Armenia, sticking the regions of Azerbaijan on Armenia? It was started by the deputy from Moscow, Arkadi Volsko, who didn’t suppress, but strengthened the conflict of the demonstrative help for the Armenian side.
And the president Yeltsin, recognizing the same empiric claims of the Russian cooperation and, increasing the number of refugees and kindling anti-Russian mood, said from a balcony in Stepanakert (by languor or by vigilant brain) in winter, 1992 during his “peacemaking” that Karabakh is the Russian land, Shusha is the battle-front of Russia. Be happy, Russia!
After the scandal of putting weapons in Erevan, there was started serious talking about that Armenia prevents NATO in moving forward the East.
Military publicists, especially the colonel Fomin, protest: “About which preventing NATO we can talk if the main foothold of NATO in Europe – USA – feeds Armenia? Surely, nothing about the “free of charge” Russian base. If NATO wants to attack Russia, then nobody will be able to keep these lands even for half an hour. The enemy will just invade the depots and will continue his way. If the Turkish connected with the Azerbaijanis, attack Armenia, then Russia will have to participate in the gigantic war in its present weak position and with incongruous condition. Russia, taking the side of Armenia, will defend the aggressor who occupied twenty percent of the neighbor country”.
But it isn’t for the first time that Russia fills number of the hired soldiers, appointed by exploiter classes, of the history with its nation.
Mr. Surikov declares new claims against Azerbaijan from the Russian side: Why “Lukoil”, untypical Russian oil company leading by the ethnic Azerbaijani, V. Alakbarov, has so many shares in the oil consortium?… A. Surikov prefers the advice of Zori Balayan, one of the leaders of Karabakh movement, about this: “On the absence of Russia, it would be efficient for Azerbaijan and all other countries of CIS to delay the production of financial resources necessary for oil-processing, for 15-20 years in accordance with the interests of all nations of the former Union (Armenian logic – Y.P.)… You don’t need more to cancel the illegal extract of oil in the Caspian Sea, after all. It is enough to hold scientific bombard from 2-3 military planes of Russia in the regions, and the western investors will lose their tracks”, – Anton Surikov sounds Zori Balayan. There is a military guarantee in the Persian Gulf, you know… But the author and his distributor will stop the military scenario today. Begin now, war! “Answer of the Karabakhians (the army which executes commands in Russian – Y.P.) will entirely destroy the army of Azerbaijan, and this is end of not only the regime of Aliyevs, but also government of Azerbaijan”. The Armenians, not waiting for increasing of Azerbaijan under the control of the young and ambitious Ilham Aliyev and not agreeing to share the fortune of the strange Serbians, have to attack first.
According to Z. Balayan and A. Surikov, the most essential thing for Russia is to keep its army always ready for fight in Armenia and Karabakh (“which prevents the Turkish army to attack the republic and intervention in the Karabakh conflict”). 12 years are left, but Turkey couldn’t be helpful for Azerbaijan.
But nobody would think such disgusting ending of the quotation: “We need to explain the position of Russia to the Azerbaijani society patiently. You know, in real the interests of the Russian and Azerbaijani nations are not contrary, they are entirely the same”.
And at the end a day will come, according to Z.Balayan, when Great Armenia will appear at the territories of Azerbaijan and the southern Russia (including the center in Armavir).
Wishes, wishes… But how to save our nation from the heap in Karabakh? Let’s think all together, there is still little time.
1998-2005, Sankt-Petersburg
The Georgians about the Armenians
Felix Cercvadze, ARMENIA and NAGORNO KARABAKH, Growth of myths, (beginning in the previous issues)
The third source, “Great illustrative encyclopedic dictionary FILLIPS” (Moscow, 2003)
A part of the Armenians stayed in Turkey as the citizens, the other big part started to spread over the whole world. Russian powers, trying to colonize the Azerbaijani lands deprived from Persia and aiming to place Christian population there when the indigenous Russians (except of the minor old-sectarians, the Molocans and the “Subbotniks”) weren’t going to live at Azerbaijani lands, invited the Armenians to place in Azerbaijan. The suggestion was accepted and thousands of the Armenians, with their episcopes and catholicons, directed their way toward the lands of Azerbaijan. Independence of Armenia was proclaimed solemnly in 1918 at the places where the Armenians concentrated compactly after the disintegration of Russian Empery at the territories of the previous Azerbaijani khanates (beginning from Erevan khanate). Armenia started war against Azerbaijan and Georgia that also proclaimed their independence, to own their territories. The Armenians were defeated, but the Bolsheviks, leading by Lenin and Stalin, mysteriously interfered to the problem. The whole Caucasus was sovietized. The lands of the previous Karabakh khanate (Nagorno Karabakh), except of the lands of Erevan khanate, were given to New Armenia by the Soviet power in 1920. But there was discrepancy: both of the parts of New Armenia were decomposed and there weren’t common borders. Stalin solved the “discrepancy” before the Soviet Union organization in a moment in 1923: Nagorno Karabakh was returned to Azerbaijan, but Zangazur with the Goycha lake and its surroundings, the areas where were deprived from Azerbaijan, were consolidated to New Armenia instead of Nagorno Karabakh. The Armenians changed the name of Goycha to Sevan according the Persians method. And so, New Armenia had a new name, Soviet Armenia in the composition of Soviet Union. When Soviet Union agonized, they suddenly remembered that the Mountainous Karabakh belonged to New Armenia from 1920 to 1923 and the Mountainous Karabakh was joined to the Republic of Armenia with the help of Russia. But all forgot that Karabakh, Zangazur, Goycha are the ancient, legal, historical lands of Azerbaijan. It isn’t said as lack of sudden: “Law turns to the way where the strong turn it”. And Azerbaijan isn’t at the list of the strong yet. Its lands have been controlled by the strong since 1989. There are nearly 6.5 million Armenians in the world today. Nearly 3 million of them are in New Armenia (Republic of Armenia). 1.2 million of them moved to Russia on some basis. And so, there are approximately 1.8 million Armenians in Armenia. And they, plus 123 thousands in Karabakh, keep the position against 8 million Azerbaijanis and keep the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. Let’s return to the schedule. We see that emergence of Erevan was given by the creators as an Urartian fortress. Another myth. Let’s pay attention to the historical facts showing that it is suspicious that the ancient Urartians built a fortress in the territory of Erevan. Firstly, Urartu was situated more far from Erevan to the South, and its capital Tushpa located near the Van lake. Secondly, Urartu hadn’t any war against the Southern and Eastern neighbors. All their war activity was held in the Southern and South-Western direction, in the direction of Assur, Vavilion, Mesopotami, across the Tigra and Evfrat rivers. Czar of Urartu, Argishti First occupied the top of Evfrat but not the Caucasus in 786 b. c. when Urartu was powerful. Czar of Urartu, Sarduri Third voluntarily recognized himself under the control of Assur in 640 b. c. as there was appeared a new problem for Urartu in the East– Midia, joining to Manna (ancestors of the Azerbaijanis), occupied both Urartu and Assur and then Persia invaded all these states.
So, the Erebuni Fortress was built or by the Midiyans, by the Mannaians or by the Persians.
(to be continued)
Genocide of the Azerbaijanis in the beginning of the XX century
Bloody events of Baku in March, 1918
The October revolution in Russia in 1917 caused a lot of innovation and problems with its extension not only in this country, but also in the neighbor countries including the Caucasian republics.
Azerbaijan, having very special and important mean in the strategic communications and rich natural resources, was on the threshold of the first Democratic Republic in the Near East and of course, it irritated Russia who didn’t want to lose its previous dependent, and there were also others who didn’t wish independence of this country. The Armenians leaded the line of the last, dreaming about to appropriate territories of Azerbaijan and create there so called mythic “Great Armenia”. And there were started all possible Armenian tricks planned to destroy all democratic changes and attempts to the recreation of the statehood in Azerbaijan. The Armenians planned to execute their whim at any cost, even arranging mass carnage of the Azerbaijani population. As it was noted, the situation became complicated after the chaotic-political events and it made excellent chances for the Armenians.
Baku Soviet (BS) consisting of the Bolsheviks, in which the main role factually belonged to the Bolsheviks and the Esers from different places, controlled the power in the city, in real. The Armenians, leading by Stepan Shaumyan – director of BS and extraordinary commissioner by problems of the Caucasus, played the leading role among the local Bolsheviks. Parts of The Red Army (RA) of BS were organized entirely from the Armenians and the majority of commanders were from the Dahnaksutyun Party, for example, “dashnak” Z.Avetisov, chief of staff of the Red Army in Baku and former colonel of the tsar army, “dashnak” Amazasp, commander of the third brigade and others.
The March events in Baku started when BS disarmed and arrested the little armed Azerbaijani group which was on the “Evelina” ship from Lankaran to Baku to participate as guard of honor in funeral rites of the son of the Azerbaijani millionaire Hadji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev – Mammad Tagiyev who was killed during the confrontation between the Muslim and Russian-Armenian groups in the Lankaran city. The military divisions planned to return to Lankaran on the same ship after the funeral rites of M. Tagiyev. But the leaders of BS didn’t allow the ship to sail and gave an ultimatum about requiring the military servants to give their weapons. The military servants, trying to prevent intensification of the events, agreed to give the weapons on March 18. But the disarming of the Azerbaijani divisions, trying to leave the city, enraged the Muslim population of the city who accepted this as provocation and outrage of the sad father Tagiyev, because the disarming wasn’t applied to the other armed bands of the ethnic parties in the city. At that day there were started building of barricades, uncoordinated meetings requiring to return the confiscated weapons to the soldiers or to disarm the other ethnic military alignments too.
Exactly at that complicated situation there was organized provocative shooting of Cavalry of RA. Leaders of the Bolsheviks condemned the Azerbaijanis for the incident and started military operations against them – there was begun original carnage of the innocent population of the city. The following recognition of Shaumyan himself proves that the fights in Baku on March, 1918 were the planned acts of annihilation of the Azerbaijanis: “We had to reply and we caught an excuse when the first attempt of the armed attack to our Cavalry happened, and we started to attack the whole battle-front. We had already armed forces – nearly 6 thousand people thanks to the work of the local Soviet and Military – revolutionary committee of the Caucasian Army delivered here (from Tiflis and Sarikamish). Besides, there were 3-4 thousand national groups in “Dashnaksutyun” being at our command. Their participation gave the character of national carnage to the civil war, but there wasn’t any way to escape from this. We followed this purposely. The poor Muslims suffered a lot…”
The fights started at 17 o’clock on March 18. The Dashnaks, who had declared their neutralism, took part at the carnage of peaceful people. Even the civil Armenian population of Baku participated at the slaughter. The esers and kadets, taking the Bolsheviks’ side, motivated their chose as “fighting against the Muslim population”. That’s why, the events of Baku in March, 1918 have the same character with “genocide”. At that night BS charged the dashnaks and Armenian National Soviet to start military operations against the Azerbaijanis. Sailors of the Caspian marine were informed about as if the Azerbaijanis started military activities against the Russians and they kill Russian population in Baku. Russian ships shot at the city from sea for many hours till they knew that all information was error. The Armenians killed all population of the Pokhludara and Muhammad-Ali quarters on March 18. To prevent the people who tried to run away for escape, the Bolsheviks captured the port and blockaded Old city under the pretext of “annihilation of the Musavatians”. The other Muslim quarters were also destroyed completely in midnight. Armenian soldiers invaded and ransacked Old city at night on March 20. Population of this city was killed with special brutality. For example, the Muslim mosque which was full of people was burnt. The Armenians also consumed the gigantic buildings “Ismailiya” and shot the people who wanted to put out the fire to prevent spreading of the fire over the other houses. After all these people who were alive left the city.
As the result, more than 25 thousand people were killed in Baku in three days. Shaumyan reported it to Moscow as “civil war”. And because of this, he decreased the number of the dead for a lot of times. The persons who were killed in Baku as the result of the genocide were buried at Mountainous cemetery in the Chambarakand quarter (now “Shahidlar Khiyabani” is situated here, where the victims of the January fights in 1990 are buried).
Shaumyan estimated the bloody torture on the Azerbaijanis in Baku so: “Results of the fights are excellent for us. Destruction of the opposite side is perfect…” But the torture of the Azerbaijanis didn’t end with this. During the decline of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (ADR) in April, 1920, the Armenian terrorist bands, leading by Andranik, Amazasp, Gayk, Dro, Njde and others, annihilated peaceful populations of different regions.
Bloody events of Shamakhi in March, 1918
After mass carnage of the peaceful population of Baku, the armed Armenian groups of executioners, with the help of foreign supporters, moved to the regions of Azerbaijan under the same cruel mission. One of the next places for fights was selected Shamakhi.
International terrorist organization “Dashnaksutyun” sent a big amount of military supplies and weapons, which were kept in the plants of the oil-magnate Aleksandr Mantashev (is Armenian for the nationality, he didn’t wish the money earned from the Baku oil, is an exterminator of the Azerbaijanis for Armenian executioners, is also citizen of Baku – red.) and other Armenian industry owners – basic sponsors of the underlined organization, on the ships from Petrovsk (present-day Makhachkala) to Baku on March 15-20, 1918. There were held hyperbolical preparations for the tragic events in Baku and other regions of Azerbaijan… It should be noted that A. Mantashev established Armenian National Bank in London for 1 million rubles, where the deposits of “Dashnaksutyun” were kept too. By the way, he built the ancient Ovanesa Mrtic – Ioanna Krestitel’s church in Paris in 1904 for a half million francs, the money earned from the Baku oil.
The Armenian bands invaded the Muslim part of Shamakhi city on March 18, 1918. They burnt houses, killed famous public figures, representatives of the intelligence and ordinary people with special brutalities and unbelievable torture. Mammadtagi Aliyev, member of the First State Duma of Russia was executed with special brutality too. People trying to escape from fire were shot. The whole roads were full of dead bodies of the women whose breasts were cut, stomachs were opened. Witnesses of the events were able to bring groups of the dead children who were killed in prams and it was just horrible to look at their bodies. According to A.F.Novatsko, member of Committee of Emergency Investigations (CEI), the Armenian bands which ransacked Shamakhi, were “inspired by one idea – to kill and rob, to rob and kill”. The bloody operations were directly leaded by the activist of “Dashnaksutyun”, Stepan Lalayev who blindly fulfilled out the program of Stepan Shaumyan about the mass carnage of the Azerbaijanis. According to the documents of CEI, he personally participated in the killing of the peaceful citizens.
March of 1918 was a bloody month for the inhabitants of Shamakhi. Then the Armenian bands unexpectedly attacked the Gubadli village and killed 250 men, 150 women, 135 children including babies. As the result of the fights procreated by the armed Armenian bands in the Garavelli village, 40 men, 50 women, 30 children were killed. 25 men, 5 women, 4 children in the Gonagkend village; 192 men, 115 women, 25 children in the Gushchu village; 250 women, the old, children in the Sundi village; 200 men, 100 women, 78 children in the Arab-Gadim village; 300 persons in the Marzali-Tatar village; 200 men, 300 women and children in the Akhsu village; 520 men, women and children in the Yukhari Langabli village were killed.
Harder slaughters, ruins and killing the peaceful people of the city and villages were committed by the Armenian bandits, who invaded Shamakhi for two times, from the terrorist organization “Dashnaksutyun” during March-April in 1918, under the control of the Soviet communist powers. So, 360 men, 412 women, 150 children were killed in the Azerbaijani village Tegeli consisting of 260 houses and then the village was burnt. The Armenian bandits committed unexampled savagery at night in the Azerbaijani village Bagirli. The mad Armenian bandits executed 140 children and 150 women in front of the men who were tied to each other (80 persons), then the men were killed too. The next punishment of the Armenian bandits for innocent Azerbaijani peasants was in the Dilman village. After the unbelievable tortures 300 disarmed men, 235 women and 50 children were killed here. All dead bodies were disfigured. Armenian executioners armed from head to foot, organized terrible fights in the Kelvya village. 250 men, 150 women, more than 100 children were killed wildly. Armenians pulled out eyes of all the dead bodies. 300 men, 40 women, 20 children were executed by the Armenian bandits in the Tardjan village. The executed bodies were accompanied by the hardest tortures. Generally, according to the archive documents, 8096 persons, including 4257 men, 2492 women and 1347 children were killed by the Armenians in 58 villages of Shamakhi region for several days in March-April, 1918. All operations, which were held by the armed Armenian bandit groups in Shamakhi under the program of the international terrorist organization “Dashnaksutyun”, were accompanied by terrible tortures and unexampled punishments, and with special brutalities. For example, men were hanged up from feet and then cut into pieces with sword. The people were tied to wooden beds, wrapped up in carpet and, pouring kerosene, were burnt. Many people were nailed to floor, door, and table alive. They cut arms and legs of a man, and, forcing with bayonet, made to chew his own meat. They made big fires from the selected ancient religious books (especially the ancient Koran) which kept closely connected beliefs of confessors. Acuteness of hurts of the bandits is just unbelievable. The Armenian bandits robbed properties, destroyed and burnt buildings and objects. Streets, yards of populated places were full of dead bodies. All mosques were burnt, including “Djuma-Maschid”, an architectural memorial which was more than 800 years old. According to the witnesses, there stayed only ruins of Shamakhi. The general results are connected with the names of the Armenian killers: Stepan Lalayev, Gavril Karaoglanov, Arshak Gulbandov, Michail Arzumanov, Sedrak Vlasov, Samvel Doliyev, Petrosyan, unnamed with the nickname “Barber Ovanes” and others.
Yes, this black page had a place in the history. But this terrible page mustn’t be repeated again. For this the Armenians – authors of the page must be punished decently.
Genocide of the Azerbaijanis in the beginning of XX century
Bloody events in regions of Azerbaijan in March, 1918
The Armenians, who were moved from Persia and Turkey to the lands of Azerbaijan, started to realize their cruel plan about occupying these territories and started to clean the lands from the local Azerbaijanis with the way of killing them.
According to the existing historical documents, the armed Armenian bandit groups, acting according to the program of the international terrorist organization “Dashnaksutyun” and under control of Stepan Shaumyan, the masked Bolshevik and the dashnak, continued their bloody March operations in the regions of Azerbaijan after the cruelty and mass carnage of the peaceful population in Baku city: Shamakhi, Guba, Erevan, Zangazur, Gandja, Karabakh, Jabrayil, Mugan, Nakhchivan, Lankaran, Salyan, Neftchala, Kurdamir, Xachmaz, Goychay, Agdash and Turkey-Gars.
35 men, 10 women, 6 children were executed after the severe tortures by the Armenian bandits under the name of the communists (one of the main organizers of the operations in Baku and other regions of Azerbaijan was Amazasp Srvantsyan-violent anti-Azerbaijani) in the Azerbaijani village Shorbagi, situated in the western Azerbaijan (present Armenia), in March, 1918. By the way, it is the same bandit who liked to say often: “I am Armenian hero, came to revenge the Armenians who were killed by you and the Turkish. I’ll kill the whole Azerbaijanis from the Caspian sea to the Shahdagh Mountains”. Armenian bands attacked the Azerbaijani village Meyniman from the borders of Adjigabul for two times during March. First they robbed properties of people and stole the cattle, and the band attacked the village again after 22 days with the call of “Welcome communism!”, and they killed 22 men, 16 women, 12 children and burnt 34 houses. The Armenian bands, invading the Turkish village Zeyve, shot 2500 peasants-the Azerbaijani Turkish who were taken as hostages from the 8 neighbor villages.
122 Muslim villages were cleaned out off the earth in the Guba region, more than 157 Azerbaijani villages were destroyed wildly in the mountainous part of Karabakh, 115 villages in Lankaran, 115 villages in the Zangazur region were wrecked (7729 peaceful Azerbaijanis, including 3257 women, 2276 children, were killed and more than 70 thousand people were exiled), there was hard carnage of population by the Armenian bands. 28 Azerbaijani villages in the Djavanshir region, 17 villages in the Jabrayil region, 211 villages in the Erevan province, 92 villages in the Gars province of Turkey were bunt and destroyed. According to the edition number 231 of the Armenian newspaper “Ashkhadavor” published on November 2, 1919, 199 villages were destroyed, 1920 houses were burnt and 131970 people were killed in Erevan – historical city of the Azerbaijanis in a short period of time.
Armenian bands shot and executed 10 thousands peaceful Azerbaijani Turkish in a day in front of the eyes of the consuls of Britain, America, France, Russia and the representatives of the European religious mission in the same month in Urmia, the southern Azerbaijani city. 56 houses were destroyed and 2 mosques were burnt by the bandits in the Azerbaijani city Kurdamir. There were attacks to the Karabuchag (7 persons were killed), Khalil-Kasimbekli (7 persons were killed), Arab-Mechtibekli (83 persons were killed) villages. The Chengi and Karaveli villages were entirely cleaned out off the earth. It should be noted that the commissar of one of the regiments in Shirvan was the future Soviet political official Amazasp Mikoyan, who always acted against Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijanis during his whole activity.
The inhabitants of the deportation points-Lankaran, Salyan, Heftchala were struck by the carnage committed by the Armenian groups leaded by Ter-Avakimov and Danelyan. Astara and its village were destroyed by gunfire.
And so, the armed Armenian bands, which were leaded by the international terrorist organization “Dashnaksutyun” and purposed to appropriate territories of Azerbaijan, killing more than 150 thousands innocent Azerbaijanis and banishing from the ancient lands, destroyed hundreds of the settlements with the help of the Russians in Baku and other regions of Azerbaijan and committed real genocide of the Azerbaijan nation during March-April, 1918.
By the way, the English author Peter Hopkirk exactly expressed the purposes of the Armenians and Russians in his work “Endless game”, where he wrote: “The English wanted to block the way of the German and Turkish to India, the Armenians who wanted to possess the rich lands of Azerbaijan in the east and west, the Russians who wanted to own the rich oil of Baku”.
But it should be noted that the genocide committed by the Armenians didn’t end in the beginning of the previous century. This act was repeated during the not-declared war against Azerbaijan in Khodjali, Garadagli, Meshali, Djamilli, Agdaban and other settlements.
But the time came to expose the Armenian myth about genocide of the Armenians committed by the Turkish and deliver the truth about the war of the Armenian government against the peaceful population of Azerbaijan to the international community.
“Armenia: secrets of terrorist “Christian” state”
Samuel A.Weems, The great series of Armenian frauds, Vol. I, (beginning in previous flimsies), Charter Five
ARMENIA LOSES UNPROVOKED WAR ON GEORGIA
Armenians Seek Free Handouts from the Christian World
All democratic republics require citizenship before an individual can vote. But the Armenians claim their people must be “Armenian” but should be an equal partner and vote in another republic’s elections without declaring citizenship. Is there a single example of this type of attitude in any other nation’s history? Georgia came out of the two-week war with positive results.
Their army had been tested and had stood firm at the crucial moment. Georgia had succeeded in retaining Akhalkalak, whereas Armenia had been forced to relinquish all territory seized during the war. Moreover, as Tiflis had become the headquarters of the British command in western Transcaucasia and was more closely linked to Europe than any other capital in the Caucus, Georgia had been able both to present her case and to negotiate directly with allied representatives, thus gaining a decided advantage over Armenia. Zhordonia’s government hoped that the Armenian monopoly on European sympathy had begun to crumble and that the rights of the Georgian republic would be given proper consideration by the world peace conference, which was beginning to assemble in Paris (P 125, from the book of Hovannissian).
Armenia began to lick its wounds and look to ward Azerbaijan as its next victim in attempting the conquest of someone else’s lands.
The first winter was especially hard. The Armenian people suffered greatly. Hovannissian notes: “The chaotic situation in Armenia was intensified by the presence of approximately 500,000 refugees” (P 126). This number is confirmed by reports of American and British officials as well as by relief workers.
Hovannissian continues: “These figures do not include the additional thousands who had found temporary sanctuary in Zangezur and Karabakh, Georgia, the North Caucasus and the steppe lands of Russia” (P 127) In addition, this number did not include the many thousands of Armenian refugees in the Arab world.
Again, the Armenian numbers do not add up. If 1 million Armenians were removed from the Ottoman combat zones – if 500,000 went to Armenia, if there were additional many thousands of Armenian refugees in other places, if thousands of Armenian women were taken into Muslim households – just how can Armenians claim genocide of 1.5 million of their people? Based on Armenian history Professor Richard G. Hovannissian’s numbers, the alleged 1.5 million Armenian genocide just could not have happened.
The actual facts do prove the Armenian people suffered unimaginable horror, thanks to the selfish decisions made by their leaders in starting: a civil war in the Ottoman Empire; an attempt to start a civil war in Georgia; and an attempt to begin a civil war in Azerbaijan!
Hovannissian reports the terror experienced by the Armenian people:
The winter of 1918-19 was one of the longest and most severe in the annals of Erevan. The homeless masses, lacking food, clothing, and medicine, passed hellish months in blizzard conditions. The starving people sometimes demonstrated or rioted for food, but these sporadic outbursts were to no avail. The state granaries were empty. Allied officials who came to Yerevan brought hope that before too long provisions would begin to arrive from abroad. Until that time the nation must persevere. But soon even this hope faded. An American eyewitness, overwhelmed by the misery, wrote: “A terrible population. Unspeakably filthy and tatterdemalion throngs; shelterless, death-stricken throngs milling from place to place; children crying aloud; women sobbing in broken inarticulate lamentation; men utterly hopeless and reduced to staggering weakness, heedless of the tears rolling down their dirt-streaked faces. As a picture of the Armenians most in evidence in Armenia I can think of nothing better than this, unless I turn to other kinds of mobs: Large numbers here and there, wide-eyed, eager, hands outstretched in wolfish supplication; teeth bared in a ghastly grin that had long since ceased to be a smile – an emaciated, skin-stretched grin, fixed and uncontrollable.
The pitiful multitude lay in the snow, in partially destroyed buildings, on doorsteps of churches, eventually too weak to protest or even to beg any longer. They lived in the land of stalking death; waiting with sunken face and swollen belly for the touch of that angel. And death came, delivering from anguish thousands upon thousands of refugees and native inhabitants alike.
Many who withstood the exposure and famine succumbed to the ravaging diseases that infested the derelict masses. Typhus was the major killer, striking in every district and at every age group, taking its largest toll among the children. The phenomenon of death came to be both expected and accepted. The insensible bodies were gathered from the streets by the hundreds each week and covered in mass graves, often without mourner or final rites. That year in the capital alone some 19,000 people contracted the disease and nearly 10,000 died from the three-headed monster – exposure, famine, pestilence” (P 127-128).
(to be continued)
National Heroes of Azerbaijan
Heroically dead, rescuing wounded comrades
The present national spring holiday of Novruz in Agdam family Qasimov celebrated somewhat unusually. After all it coincided with forty-year anniversary of their beloved son who forever has remained the young man of 22-year-old age…
Ikhtiyar Gasim oglu Gasimov was born March 22, 1970 in the Salahli village of Agdam district of Azerbaijan. Having finished 8 classes of rural high school, he went to Baku – to continue his study at school with chemical-biological bias. After school, Ikhtiyar successfully passed the entrance examination and entered the Faculty of Agronomy of Ganja Agricultural Academy, where the first year of teaching was distinguished by his distinctive potential of literacy and decent behavior. At sources of his diligent study lay in the first place, inexhaustible love of his native land. He dreamed of becoming a good specialist in agriculture, to raise the culture of agriculture, promote agricultural production in their native land. But it so happened that before it became necessary to defend these lands from Armenian armed forces, who wanted to take away from Azerbaijan its historic part – Nagorno-Karabakh.
When in January 1992, the students were released to industrial practices, Ikhtiyar, who could no longer remain aloof from the cause of the invaders of their land use right moment and turned to the military commissariat. At first, here he replied in the negative, because he was a student and had to finish college. But could not resist his persistence and irresistible desire to defend the native land, and Gasimov was enlisted in the structure of 3rd battalion of the 836th military unit. From the first days of service he was able to demonstrate his ability and dexterity, and after a short period of service has turned to the favorite of ordinary companions and has got respect of commanders and officers. After a little time, Ikhtiyar began to act as a scout and operational data, acquired directly and presented them to commanders, have been crucial during combat operations. As a result, the correct choice of the commander of the detachment Gasimov plan for fighting in the village Gazanchy were destroyed three IFVs, one armored vehicle and several dozen of the enemy’s manpower. He showed particular bravery and courage during fights of May 15, 1992, when the enemy impact in a direction of village Gulably of Agdam district has been beaten off.
July 14, 1992 Armenian armed forces attacked Janyatag village. Bloody battle between the contradictory parties was fastened. During fights some of Azerbaijani soldiers were wounded. There was a danger of hit of wounded men in an enemy captivity. To prevent this, Ikhtiyar fearlessly rushed forward to battle face to face. And, self-denyingly battling, he has achieved stay of counterattack of the Armenian armed forces. Wounded Azerbaijani soldiers managed to take from the battlefield. I.Gasimov died the death of heroes…
On December 7, 1992, Ikhtiyar Gasim oglu Gasimov was posthumously conferred the honorary title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan.
He was buried at the cemetery in native village Salahli.
Salahli rural high school of Agdam district, where in due time studied Ikhtiyar, now bears the name of the hero.
Miserable situation in the Armenian armed forces
Desertion, murder, rape, aggression, infringement, homosexuality, hazing, bribery, corruption, suicide and other illegalities increase in the enemy army.
A miserable situation is prevailing in the army of Armenia which faces with serious economic crisis in the South Caucasus. According to the reports APA obtained, disciplinary, spiritual-psychological and physical state of the military servicemen worsened in compare with previous years. There were 1643 cases of desertion, murder, rape, beating, bribery, corruption, suicide attempt, suicide, infringement and other illegal actions in 2007, 1984 – in 2008 and 2240 – in 2009.
370 out of 2240 cases were accidental, 652 – violation of regulations among the military servicemen and 1218 – criminal. Of the last 580 – slight, 432 – and 206 serious – very serious crimes. The number of committed in the last year in Armenian forces 206 serious crimes (murder and injury) in 18 cases more than in 2008.
Armenian armed forces faced with numerous losses in 2009. 78 servicemen of Armenian army were killed in the course of year. 21 of them were killed in the battles (shooting, mine action, special operations) and 57 others were killed during the different incidents.
57 Armenian soldiers were killed in unmilitary incidents in 2009. Unmilitary losses increased by 12 in compare with 2008.
The suicide attempts and suicides also increased in 2009. There were 46 such cases last year. But compared with the developments of 2008, the attempts to commit suicide increased by 25 and reached 71. 13 soldiers were killed as a result of suicide. The investigations found out that the attempts to commit suicide were connected with the, bribery, behavior contradicting regulations and hazing in the military. It was found out that attempts to commit suicide in the Armenian Armed Forces were mainly connected with the arbitrariness of high-ranking officers, hazing, insulting of soldiers by officers, ensigns, raping of soldiers by officers and ensigns, sergeants, making parents of soldiers bring money, sex of officers and ensigns with the parents of the soldiers, revelation of the fact of raping by personnel, hard military service, psychological problems in the Armenian Army.
A number of facts of death and injury as a result of violation of weapon usage rules were recorded in the Armenian army in 2009. 193 such facts were recorded in 2009. In 2008 this figure was 46. 11 soldiers died, 182 were wounded as a result of the abovementioned cases.
57 soldiers deserted in Armenia in 2009, this is 14 facts more compared with 2008. 33 of them – soldiers, are on emergency active military service, 12 – employees under contract, 7 – corporals, 5 – officers. 12 of them took their weapons with them while deserting.
There still cases in the Armenian army when commanders illegally give permission to the soldiers to leave the military unit for money. 78 such facts were recorded in 2009. 58 of released – soldiers, 13 – employees under contract, 7 – officers and warrant officers.
Soldiers are allowed to stay at home for a month under the pretext of hospital, detached duty after paying $500-1000 depending on place of the military unit.
Along with the facts of misconduct, arbitrariness, anarchy, immorality in the armed forces of Armenia reached its peak and criminality. Criminogenic situation reached its peak. 138 criminogenic incidents were recorded in the Armenian armed forces in 2009, this is 24 facts more compared with the previous year.
18 facts of knifing were recoded in the Armenian armed forces in 2009. 7 of them resulted in death.
Soldiers of the Armenian armed forces have committed several crimes against civilians in 2009. That is criminal case on 12 soldiers in kidnapping personal property of civilians, violence towards people, aggression and other cases.
Besides indiscipline and arbitrariness, immorality problem also quickly spread through Armenian army. That is, the number of soldiers involved in homosexualism has increased in comparison with 2008. There are 200-250 such people, 12 of them are officers.
Soldiers undertake inclination to homosexualism intentionally to release from military service because of worse welfare standards at military units.
It must be noted that drug addicts also spread in the Armenian army, besides criminal and immorality cases. This number has toll to 77 in 2009. Bringing of drugs to military units and sale is realized by sergeant staff under officers’ patronage. Drugs have been brought especially from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Narcotic is being cultivated by high-level officer’s staff in the areas controlled by military units.
Armenian community is worried about non-fight losses in the army more than 3 fight losses. Negative cases in the army happen because of the “clan” policy, corruption, spending finance for buying weapons and military equipments, as well as law material and social life conditions of officers.
Armenian armed forces look the health of its soldiers very indifferently. A lot of soldiers have been taken to regional and central military hospitals with serious health problems because of the low-calorific foods, antisanitarian conditions, devastated conditions of the barracks.
Century Armenian Genocide of Azerbaijanis
The theme of genocide of the Armenians against the Azerbaijani people over the last century has been devoted to the Round Table, held on 31 March of this year, by the “Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan” (ACSDA) and Public Association for the “Protection of Rights of Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Azerbaijan” (PA PRMIDPA).
Professor Nadir Abdullayev, the chairman of PA PRMIDPA, opened the event with an opening speech, drew attention of participants of the Round Table on the date of the meeting – according to the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan on March, 26, 1998, 31 March is marked in republic as the Day of a genocide of Azerbaijanis.
Ali Mammadov, the doctor of historical sciences, professor of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University has acted with a report on the genocide of Armenians against Azerbaijanis. Faiq Ismailov, chairman of the Public Association Organization for Protection of Monuments of Azerbaijan, Zaur Aliyev, official representative of the Azerbaijan Ombudsman Apparatus, Maharram Zulfigarly, candidate of historical sciences, Gadir Nasirov, editor of the “Voice of Karabakh” newspaper, Rauf Sultanov, president of the Fund of Monitoring of Ecological Standards of Azerbaijan, Teymur Alban, candidate of science, Ismail Ismailov, chairman of the Public Organization “Man and Society” and others have acted.
Reporters and speakers have noticed that refugees in Azerbaijan territory from Iran and Turkey by means of imperial Russia Armenians have started to put into practice the artful plan on assignment of the earths of Azerbaijan, and with that end in view to expel local Azerbaijanis from homes, to arrange their mass destruction. The apogee has reached these bloody events in the XXth century beginning – in 1918-1920.
Armenian gangster formations armed cap-á-pie together with the Russian and English patrons have invaded in Baku and under the direction of the chairman of the Baku Soviet dashnak Stepan Shaumyan had been smashed and burned most of the urban areas and massacred peaceful urban population. Such incredible most terrible acts of mass destruction of people, like the burning of the mosque, along with trapped there until failure citizens are known. As a result of repressive measures the combined Russian-English-Armenian forces for 1918-1920 only in Baku were destroyed about 25 thousand people. Not casually that S.Shaumyan, estimating bloody March punishment over the Azerbaijan population of Baku, has told: “Results of fights clear for us. Defeat of the enemy (that is Azerbaijanis – O.V.) was the uttermost…”
It has been noticed that after the Baku excesses the Armenian retaliatory groups have continued the bloody campaign in regions of Azerbaijan. The next item of mass destruction of Azerbaijanis became Shemakha, where only during March-April 1918 were exterminated 8096 people, including 4257 men, 2492 women and 1347 children. The armed groups have carried out massacre of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan’s regions, including Guba, Irevan, Zangezur, Ganja, Karabakh, Jebrail, Mugan, Nakhchivan, Lankaran, Salyan, Neftchala, Kurdamir, Khachmaz, Goychay, Agdash and other areas as well as in Gars Turkey. In total, during the 1918-1920 about 150 thousands of innocent people have been killed. The mass burial place found out in 2007 in the Guba where there are remains killed by tortures nearby 600 persons the majority old men from which were, women and children – only one of many facts to support an act of genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis. And that this act was not completed slaughter 1918-1920. In the end of 80th and in the beginning of 90th, Armenian separatism again raised his head. Armenians for centuries bearing the plan of capture of the Azerbaijan territories, opened an undeclared war, during which occupied one-fifth of Azerbaijani territory, destroyed more than 900 settlements, all infrastructure of region is destroyed, and more than 20000 people were killed. In some settlements, such as Khojaly, Jamilli, Meshali, Garadagly, Agdaban occurred a real genocide of the Azerbaijanis.
Participants of the Round Table had been stated offers on improvement of activity in the field of bringing of the facts of genocide of Armenians against the Azerbaijan people to world community, and also representation of necessary documents for criminally-legal estimation under the given certificate of genocide in corresponding international instances.
Sarkisyan’s nonsense
The President of Armenia, for nearly two decades with his buffoonery cheats the world, unsuccessfully trying to find a more or less acceptable option resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, threw his illogical absurdity into the middle.
In a recent interview to Euronews president of Armenia Serj Sarkisyan made such statement: “I urge Azerbaijan to sign an agreement on nonuse of force”. Then, continuing his folly, he said that “the international community proposes to solve this problem based on three principles of international law: the right to self-determination, territorial integrity and the nonuse of force… (have noticed how the right to self-determination has jumped out at Serjik on the first place?)”. Sarkisyan added that the Armenians are not just saying that for them means the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. And has asked the question: “But the Azerbaijanis, can they say how they understand the right to self-determination for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh? When we do a joint statement on the topic, Azerbaijan does not mean the right to self-determination of the Armenian people, but speaks about the right to self-determination for one of the main parties to the conflict – the people of Nagorno-Karabakh”.
Let’s remind one of the nonsense of the Armenian president, admitted during his visit to London, where he repeated his usual babble about that, saying that Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) has never been part of independent Azerbaijan, have given it to Azerbaijan on a wave Azerbaijan in the wake of Sovietization region. By the way, answering the remark of the telecorrespondent about this, his point of view is contrary to the position of the international community, Serjik made rather illogical statement: “I do not think that the international community has another point of view.” At the same time, he constantly tries to impose to the world community about the misinformation fact that NK ostensibly is the negotiating process party on a level with Azerbaijan. And during his visit to Syria, the president of Armenia in general, went far beyond the shame and decency, saying: “The culprit of instability in the South Caucasus is Azerbaijan”.
Again, as usual, superimpudence display on-sarkisyanovski! But back to what made the Armenian President has asked the Azerbaijani counterpart to sign an agreement on nonuse of force. The reasons for this, of course, clear to everyone: Armenia, caught by his own fault in the blockade, not having achieved the opening of Turkish-Armenian border, again through his own fault, now gasping and looking to make any air hole. An important role is played here by the fear of the possible implementation of Armenia by Azerbaijan power variant of liberation from the invaders of their territories that are quite admissible at an Armenian puzzle proceeding by decades. But the Armenian side, finally, to be perfectly clear that she just could not get out of it, for Armenia, because of the separatists, terrorists, fascists, represented by Kocharyan, Sarkisyan, Balayan and other-yanov, boiled such a mess that does not clear up herself as for a long time to be floundering in this hopelessness.
So, making insincere, calculated only on the public appeal to Azerbaijan to sign an agreement on nonuse of force, the official Yerevan, represented by S. Sarkisyan banal attempts to change the subject of negotiations. In addition, the latter wants to show himself and of his country in the eyes of the world’s peace-loving, they say, they want to resolve the conflict peacefully, while Azerbaijan, you see, everything tends to the war. Further, the proposal at this point to sign the so-called agreement on the nonuse of force actually still trying to legitimize the occupation – that is having put in a pocket the similar document, to immortalize ineffectual negotiations.
Now we will concern other moments following from the next illogical virtuosity of Sarkisyan. First of all, draws attention to himself defiantly edgy appeal of the Armenian president to sign an agreement on nonuse of force, plus what he said in Syria. Who said anything about non-use of force, anyone who calls the culprit of instability!? After all, it is necessary to be so impudent that, being the attacked party, the invader, the tyrant, to ask or even demand from others not to do it; as the founder of instability not only in the Caucasus, but also in all post-Soviet territory, called the culprit of instability subjected to violence from the party the country!
Further, really this mister president indeed has not realized till now that there is no such concept as “the people of Nagorno-Karabakh”. There are two communities of Nagorno-Karabakh – occupied Azerbaijani territories by Armenia – Armenian and Azerbaijani. And the Armenian people had once gained independence and established their state on the territories of Azerbaijan. As sarkisyan’s sayings at the expense of “the Armenians have often said that for them means the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, the Azerbaijanis are well aware what it means for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Armenians “respect” this principle, because the country has clearly demonstrated it in front of world, occupying one fifth of the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan and continuing about two decades to keep them under occupation.
The fact of belonging NK Azerbaijan does not cause anyone else in the world, including even Armenia, any doubt, and it proves to be true both the history and archival documents. The international recognition of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and, on the contrary, non-recognition of illegal formation under the name “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” (even Armenia is not decided on this step) – one more proof of that. And finally, it suffices to recall signed by the Presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in Moscow Meiendorf Declaration. And all this is evidence that NK – an integral part of Azerbaijan, and that the parties to the conflict are Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In short, the proposal of the Armenian president would be more or less appropriate only after the removal of the cause, creating the danger of the use of force, i.e, after the withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. For now all it – is simple an empty sarkisyan’s nonsense!
NOVRUZ – The international day of spring
One of these days, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appealed to the world community on the occasion of International Day Novruz – March 21. According to the UN Department of Public Information office in Azerbaijan, the General Assembly’s decision this year to recognize the International Day of Novruz is evidence of a growing global awareness of the holiday’s significance not only in the regions where it is celebrated but around the world.
In his address, Secretary General, said: “For millennia, when the sun crosses the equator and the northern hemisphere enters Spring, peoples in the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and other regions have carried out their own special traditions in celebration of Novruz. These rituals – from repainting homes to visiting friends to preparing symbolic meals, are infused – with a spirit of renewal and can inspire not only those conducting them but all people.
As we commemorate this first International Day of Novruz, I hope countries and people around the world will draw on this festival’s history and customs to promote harmony with the natural world and foster global peace and goodwill”.
It should be noted that, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on 23 February this year declaring 21 March International Novruz Day. The preamble of this resolution, Novruz, which means new day, celebrated on March 21, the vernal equinox more than 300 million people around the world as the beginning of the new year.
In September 2009, the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO, included Novruz in its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
As to scientists, the history of this festival is very ancient. According to scientific researches, Novruz holiday has its roots in ancient times – during the life of the prophet Zoroaster. It is celebrated at least 3700, a maximum of 5000 years in the Balkans, the Black Sea basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Near East and in other regions. And in one of the oldest written records states that Novruz holiday appeared in 505 B.C.
Novruz – in Azerbaijani Novruz – is one of the main and most popular holidays in Azerbaijan. Although it basically was marked till now in the Muslim countries, but this is not a religious holiday and the celebration of the vernal equinox, symbolizing the renewal of nature. The holiday begins on 20, 21 or 22 March, depending on when the sun passes from the southern hemisphere to the north. On this day in all places of the Earth (excluding districts of the terrestrial poles), the day is almost equal to the night. Long since many people associated with the arrival of spring with the revival of nature, arranged a holiday, celebrated it as the beginning of the new year. Widely celebrated in Azerbaijan as the Holiday of Spring, Novruz was also for centuries by diverse nations spread from the Middle East and Anatolia to Central Asia, along with Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other eastern nations.
Pre-Islamic origin Novruz confirmed renowned educators East Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Nizami, Saadi, Hafiz, Jami.
In Soviet times Novruz holiday celebrated unofficially since as the Soviet power groundless forbade to celebrate it and even persecuted for its celebration. Nevertheless, for many years in each of the Azerbaijani family celebrated Novruz, preserving ancient traditions.
The Azerbaijani people always celebrate said Novruz in the form of a solemn ceremo