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    AZERBAIJANI MP CONSIDERS IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH WESTERN AZERBAIJANI EMIGRANT GOVERNMENT

    Trend
    April 8 2010
    Azerbaijan

    The idea of creating the Western Azerbaijani emigrant government must
    be supported, said deputy chairperson of the Azerbaijani parliamentary
    committee.

    "The idea of the Western Azerbaijani emigrant government is very
    serious, and I am a supporter of this initiative," deputy chairperson
    of the Azerbaijan Parliament's committee on international relations
    and parliamentary relations, Gultekin Hajibeyli, told Trend on April 8.

    The mass deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia in the 20th century
    is divided into four phases - 1948-1956, 1987-1988. Statistical data
    and archival documents indicate that as a result, from Armenia more
    than 1.5 million Azerbaijanis were expelled from their historical
    lands. After the formation of the Armenian soviet republic, upon the
    decision of the supreme council of Armenia, Armenian names were given
    to 698 out of the 940 settlements, where Azerbaijanis lived and which
    carried Azerbaijani names. However, the Armenians did not stop there.

    Renaming continued after the complete deportation of Azerbaijanis from
    Armenia. The former president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian issued
    an order on April 9, 1991, changing the names of the last settlements
    of Azerbaijanis - 91 settlements - to which were given Armenian names.

    The oblivion of people who lived in Western Azerbaijan, whose number
    may now be millions, would be the oblivion that the Western Azerbaijani
    lands belong to the Turks. "From this point of view, this idea needs
    to be kept on the agenda. At the same time, if today Turks do not
    live in Western Azerbaijan, it does not mean that they will not live
    there after 50 years. History repeats itself, and I am sure that the
    lands will someday be returned to first owners - the Turks," she said.

    Serious efforts to implement this idea could give new leverage to
    Azerbaijan in settling the Karabakh conflict, lasting for more than 22
    years. "I think that as the realization of this idea, and presenting
    to agenda the Megrin corridor between Nakhchivan and Azerbaijan in
    the end will lead to strengthening of Azerbaijan's position in ongoing
    negotiations," said Hajibeyli.

    Today, when the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding occupied
    regions is the topic of negotiations, the issue of return of
    Azerbaijanis to the western lands of Azerbaijan in Armenia, where
    they formerly lived densely, is not presented to the agenda. "This
    creates a serious imbalance in the negotiating process. I think
    that if one of the points on which we must be very persistent is
    Megri corridor, the other important point is precisely the return
    of Western Azerbaijanis to their historical lands. From this point
    of view, I think that all have not lost, and we can return to this
    issue at any time," said the MP.
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