ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has once again intensified the false thesis about the so-called "Western Azerbaijan," noted opposition deputy, secretary of the "I Have the Honor" faction Tigran Abrahamyan on his social media account.
"Against the backdrop of calls from the international community for the realization of the right of return of the people of Artsakh, Azerbaijan has again activated the so-called false term "Western Azerbaijan," under which a significant part of the sovereign territory of Armenia is represented," Abrahamyan wrote.
"In the conditions of shameful behavior and concessions by the Armenian authorities, the main influential instruments used against Azerbaijan have been postponed, and the only thing that Armenian managers are doing is chasing this or that initiative of Azerbaijan and Turkey.
"The Armenian authorities refused to put on the agenda the issue of returning Artsakh residents to Artsakh, trying to "sell" it to Azerbaijan and thereby demonstrating their inexhaustible readiness to submit to Baku," Abrahamyan concluded.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, accepting the credentials of the newly appointed Canadian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Kevin Hamilton on July 1, in response to the diplomat's comment on the right of return, stated "the right of return must be ensured mutually, including for representatives of the West Azerbaijan Community > (this is what the calls the Republic of Armenia). The Baku leader emphasized that "in the last century, the indigenous Azerbaijani population at various stages, most recently in 1988, was subjected to ethnic cleansing on the territory of Armenia, and its material and cultural heritage was completely destroyed." And this, in turn, means for the Republic of Armenia also demands for reparations in the future. Which, by the way, was discussed the day before in Turkish Kars, where a forum was held on the topic "Return to Western Azerbaijan." "Over the course of two years, up to 300 thousand Azerbaijanis were forced to leave their lands, some of whom found refuge in Kars: Armenia must compensate for the infringement of the rights of the historical population of Western Azerbaijan," said Otuken Senger, head of the Kars municipality.
Thus, while the Armenian government is promoting its "Crossroads of the World" project, the Azerbaijani authorities are instilling in their society and on international platforms the idea of returning to the so-called Western Azerbaijan.
