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TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN NEVER SAW ARMENIA AS OBSTACLE - AMERICA-AZERBAIJAN COUNCIL
news.az
Nov 1 2011
Azerbaijan
Turkey and Azerbaijan have never seen Armenia as ideological and
geographical obstacle for cooperation.
Armenia deprived itself of an opportunity to live in condition of
cooperation with its historical neighbors by occupying lands of
Azerbaijan.
According to America-Azerbaijan Council, the statement came from AAC
Director General Javid Huseynov in his response letter to the article
by Henry Srebrnik titled "Locked in ethnic and territorial disputes"
published in the 18 October issue of Canada-based Guardian newspaper.
In response to the author's remarks about Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Huseynov has noted that the war that took
place between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1919-1920 did not produce any
decisive result. Azerbaijan defeated Armenia in 1919 thus preventing
occupation of its lands.
Huseynov stated that the conflict erupted not in 1991, but in 1987-1988
when ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia laid claims to
Azerbaijani territories. Two Azerbaijanis killed near Asgaran District
were the first victims of the conflict. The first Azerbaijani refugees
were those deported from Armenia in late 1987.
news.az
Nov 1 2011
Azerbaijan
Turkey and Azerbaijan have never seen Armenia as ideological and
geographical obstacle for cooperation.
Armenia deprived itself of an opportunity to live in condition of
cooperation with its historical neighbors by occupying lands of
Azerbaijan.
According to America-Azerbaijan Council, the statement came from AAC
Director General Javid Huseynov in his response letter to the article
by Henry Srebrnik titled "Locked in ethnic and territorial disputes"
published in the 18 October issue of Canada-based Guardian newspaper.
In response to the author's remarks about Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Huseynov has noted that the war that took
place between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1919-1920 did not produce any
decisive result. Azerbaijan defeated Armenia in 1919 thus preventing
occupation of its lands.
Huseynov stated that the conflict erupted not in 1991, but in 1987-1988
when ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia laid claims to
Azerbaijani territories. Two Azerbaijanis killed near Asgaran District
were the first victims of the conflict. The first Azerbaijani refugees
were those deported from Armenia in late 1987.