While Azerbaijani president insists on `Western Azerbaijani  community`s rights`, Yerevan fails to regognize Artsakh people`s  right - opposition MP

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has once again intensified the false thesis about the so-called "Western Azerbaijan," noted opposition deputy, secretary of the "I Have the Honor" faction Tigran Abrahamyan on his social media account. 

"Against the backdrop of calls from the international community for  the realization of the right of return of the people of Artsakh,  Azerbaijan has again activated the so-called false term "Western  Azerbaijan," under which a significant part of the sovereign  territory of Armenia is represented," Abrahamyan wrote.

"In the conditions of shameful behavior and concessions by the  Armenian authorities, the main influential instruments used against  Azerbaijan have been postponed, and the only thing that Armenian  managers are doing is chasing this or that initiative of Azerbaijan  and Turkey.

"The Armenian authorities refused to put on the agenda the issue of  returning Artsakh residents to Artsakh, trying to "sell" it to  Azerbaijan and thereby demonstrating their inexhaustible readiness to  submit to Baku," Abrahamyan concluded.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, accepting the credentials of the  newly appointed Canadian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Kevin Hamilton on  July 1, in response to the diplomat's comment on the right of return,  stated "the right of return must be ensured mutually, including for  representatives of the West Azerbaijan Community > (this is what the  calls the Republic of Armenia). The Baku  leader emphasized that "in the last century, the indigenous  Azerbaijani population at various stages, most recently in 1988, was  subjected to ethnic cleansing on the territory of Armenia, and its  material and cultural heritage was completely destroyed." And this,  in turn, means for the Republic of Armenia also demands for  reparations in the future. Which, by the way, was discussed the day  before in Turkish Kars, where a forum was held on the topic "Return  to Western Azerbaijan." "Over the course of two years, up to 300  thousand Azerbaijanis were forced to leave their lands, some of whom  found refuge in Kars: Armenia must compensate for the infringement of  the rights of the historical population of Western Azerbaijan," said  Otuken Senger, head of the Kars municipality.

Thus, while the Armenian government is promoting its "Crossroads of  the World" project, the Azerbaijani authorities are instilling in  their society and on international platforms the idea of returning to  the so-called Western Azerbaijan.