Azerbaijan and Georgia, who suffer from the Armenian nationalism, must join efforts to address this common threat and restore peace in the Caucasus.
The statement came from Aytan Mustafayeva, director of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, member of the Azerbaijani Parliament, the Milli Majlis..
“It is time to raise the archival documents. Scholars from Azerbaijan and Georgia should work with these documents, providing them to our politicians in turn,” Mustafayeva said on Thursday at a conference “Caucasus House and Armenians” in Baku.
Georgia needs to seriously address the problem of Javakhetia as the Armenian population of the region may sooner or later provoke a separatist movement, as it was in Karabakh at one time, she said.
"Javakhetia a ticking time bomb and it will be detonated when politicians decide to do so. This issue will be addressed from outside as in the case of Karabakh," the MP added.
The world community is reluctant to address the issue of Armenian separatism in Azerbaijan and Georgia as some forces don’t want to see these states to get strong and prosper, the scholar noted.
"We should talk openly about the fact that there has always been calm in the Caucasus. All peoples have lived as one family until Hays, whom we now call Armenians, were resettled here from the Balkans almost two centuries ago. They appropriated others’ territory and history with time and even their coat of arms depicts someone else's land.”
Azerbaijanis and Georgians can restore peace in the region and also dispel the myth about the “Armenian genocide” by raising awareness of world community about the real history of the Caucasus, the MP believes.
“Armenians have been trying with unprecedented zeal to give people who died during the war for the victims of genocide in the last century at the same time trying to evade responsibility for a real genocide they perpetrated against the peaceful Azerbaijani women, children and the elderly.”
The Human Rights Institute Director said Azerbaijani and Georgian scholars are making insufficient efforts in this regard and draw no lessons from the mistakes made in the past.
“We should acknowledge our mistakes. If we don’t do it, they will be hard to correct. We should work hand in hand, to exchange useful information and speak openly about the problems. If Azerbaijani speaks about the problems of Azerbaijan, no one will listen to it unlike when it is told by Georgian or English man,” Mustafayeva stated.
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