The statements by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev that the capital of Armenia is built on ancient Azerbaijani lands cause panic among Armenians.
The statement came from chief of the sector in department of public-political issues of presidential administration Fuad Akhundov.
“President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has been raising the issue that the modern Yerevan was constructed on Azerbaijani lands since 2006, which causes panic among Armenians”, Akhundov told a presentation of the historical and analytical internet portalwww.erevangala500.com on the 500th anniversary of the Irevan fortress (modern Yerevan-the capital of modern Armenia).
“Naturally, the fact that the 500th anniversary of construction of the Irevan fortress and the 50th jubilee of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev (to be market on Saturday) are marked on the same day is the coincidence. But I personally evaluate this as a symbolical sign, since for the first time this issue was raised by the head of the state”, representative of the presidential administration said,Interfax-Azerbaijan reports.
He noted that people who visited Yerevan say that there are no historical monuments in Yerevan. “There are historical parts, fortresses and cultural monuments in Baku and Tbilisi. But Armenia lacks such monuments because Armenian vandals destroyed all”, he said.
Akhundov noted that creation of Yerevan on historical Azerbaijani lands is proven by most historical documents. In this view he drew the analogy between the destiny of the Irevan fortress and Italian Pompey. According to him, Pompey is the only city which did not change the image for about two centuries since it was left under cinder after volcano eruption. Meanwhile, the digging is held accurately, since Italians value their ancient history.
“However, Yerevan can be considered the only city of this kind, who has completely changed its image. In other words, Armenians left nothing of previous image of Yerevan. Demolition of ancient buildings in this city, particularly, intensified after the 1960’s”, he said.
According to Akhundov, such an attitude to the ancient buildings of Yerevan was connected with the fact that ‘there were the architectural elements alien to Armenians and they committed the acts of vandalism”.
The representative of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan also noted that the same way Armenians misappropriate the Albanian heritage of Azerbaijan in the occupied lands of Nagorno Karabakh”.
Armenians call the Ganzasar monastery the Notre Dame of Karabakh and consider it the Armenian monastery of the ancient times. However, in fact this monastery is built by Albanian tsar Hasan Jalal. This is proven by the book of famous Soviet scientist Joseph Orbeli “Legends of Ganzasar” issued in 1919 amid the Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontation. It was no accident that the release of this book was stopped upon publication and almost the whole issue was terminated”, Akhundov said.
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