A senior official has said that Baku will continue the information war until Armenia withdraws from occupied Azerbaijani land.
Elnur Aslanov, head of the political analysis and information department at the Presidential Administration, was referring to Armenian forces' occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven surrounding districts.
War between the two South Caucasus countries over the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh ended with a ceasefire in 1994, but no peace deal has been agreed.
"We realize of course that the information war cannot last for ever, but we will continue it until Azerbaijani land is no longer under occupation," Elnur Aslanov told journalists on Thursday.
The war will take a variety of forms: it will use the Internet, different publications and the launch of books on Caucasian history and the Karabakh conflict.
"The information war, which is a component of what the Azerbaijani president described as offensive foreign policy, will be continued," Aslanov said.
He was talking at the launch of a reprinted version of the book, The Caucasus, by late 19th-century Russian journalist and historian Vasiliy Velichko. In the book, Velichko outlines the settlement of Armenians in the region and the emergence of their territorial claims on other peoples.
Aslanov said the book would be translated into English and widely distributed abroad. Copies will be given to the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, mediating a solution to the Karabakh conflict.
"Velichko spoke in line with the state interests of the Russian Empire, but nevertheless showed its unfair treatment of indigenous peoples of the Caucasus," Elnur Aslanov said.
"Velichko’s studies are based on real events. He wrote about the creation of such terror organizations as Dashnaktsutun and Hnchak at the initiative of the Armenian church, which committed crimes against not only Azerbaijanis and Turks, but also Jews, Russians and Georgians," he said.
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