If the Armenian community today lives in the Karabakh economic zone and the Azerbaijani state, like its citizens, guarantees safe residence of Armenians, Armenia should also recognize the right of our compatriots deported from Western Azerbaijan, live on a compact territory and guarantee their safety, a member said the reign of the community of Western Azerbaijan Nazim Mustafa.
According to him, 499 sat in Western Azerbaijan, where the Azerbaijanis once lived, empty and today lie in ruins.
“To date, 702 toponym has been armanized,” Mustafa said.
He also noted that only in the Western Zangesur Azerbaijanis compactly lived in more than 70 villages, as well as in the Gachych Lake basin, and today the Armenians settled in 734 villages of Western Azerbaijan, where our compatriots once lived.
as the president said, Armenia in general is experiencing a period of depopulation, people are leaving there, there is no natural population growth, at the same time there is an unbearable political situation, repressions, actually dictatorship and economic difficulties. Therefore, we must work on the concept of returning to the western Azerbaijan, ”said the member of the board of the community.
On December 24, at a meeting with a group of representatives of the intelligentsia from Western Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev noted the need to develop the concept of returning to Western Azerbaijan.
“This issue is on our agenda right now, after the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Of course, it was too early to talk about this before the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. But today, in my opinion, we should not lose time. We must be prepared. The concept of return. Again, this concept, as they say, should be peaceful. We must take acceptable provisions of all international conventions for us and on this basis demand our rights. The concept of return should be, ”Aliyev emphasized.
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