Guardian Weekly, the compact weekly digest of Guardian and Observer highlights, every week publishes a ‘Letter from’ one of its readers from around the world. On Tuesday it published ‘Letter from Azerbaijan: off the map’. But this letter was not sent from Azerbaijan, indeed, it was from occupied Azerbaijani territory - Nagorno-Karabakh which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
The article itself also stresses the issue of recognition: "According to the rest of the world, the region belongs to Azerbaijan, and no one – not even Armenia, Karabakh's patron state – recognizes it." Despite this ethnic Armenians are too eager to celebrate the de-facto independence: "Patriotic banners flutter above Stepanakert's streets, and posters of the soldiers who during a bloody war in the early 1990s helped wrest the land away from Azerbaijan line the sidewalks."
However, the author misses to mention that those soldiers who took action in the war in fact helped Armenia to conquest Azerbaijani lands by use of military force. Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven adjacent rayons (some of them partly) were occupied by the Armenian forces during the war. As a result, approximately 1 million people had to leave their own homes. The UN Security Council Resolutions, namely 822, 853, 874 and 884 resolutions about the withdrawal of occupying forces from Azerbaijani territories, are still unfulfilled after 20 years they have been passed.
Another interesting issue is the presentation of Nagorno-Karabakh, more specifically Azerbaijani Xankendi (Stepanakert, in Armenian) as a developing touristic destination: "Today locals meander along leafy streets lined with new banks, stores and government buildings. A tourism industry is slowly taking root." There is no need to talk about the economy of de-facto recognized republic which to a higher degree depends on Armenia, the second worst economy in the world according to ‘Forbes’ after Madagascar. When it comes to the tourists visiting the region; admittedly, the Nagorno-Karabakh along with other 7 districts are Azerbaijani territories and no one has a right to visit its territories as a tourist without Azerbaijan side to be informed.
The article published in "Guardian weekly" is not rare in its character, Armenian side has used various ways to deceive world community and hide the reality from them. But nowadays Azerbaijan is the strongest state in the Caucasus in terms of politics and economy and we do believe that the day of justice is not so far away.
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