Iran to host conference devoted to historical distortions in Azeri literature

PanARMENIAN.Net - Numerous materials with false information about Armenia and Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan published for 20 years in Azerbaijan. These materials represent an Armenian as an enemy, thereby enhancing the image of the enemy among the Azerbaijani people, Vladimir Zakharov, Deputy Director of Caucasian Studies Institute of Moscow State Institute of International Relations told journalists in Yerevan.  



"In these materials Armenians are presented as the perpetrators of the Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Baku, and the worst thing is Baku distributes these materials and literature in the West. Why the Armenian side does not respond to these actions, why does not initiate steps in this direction? After all, wrong views are spread in Europe," the political scientist said.  



Vladimir Zakharov informed that Iran will host a conference devoted to historical distortions in Azerbaijani literature in May this year.



On January 13, 1990, the Azerbaijani authorities instigated the Armenian pogroms of Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200 thousand were exiled in the period of January 13-19. The exact number of those killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried out into the crimes.  

On the above-mentioned date, a crowd numbering 50 thousand people divided into groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On January 17, the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign Ministers and European Council to protect Armenians and render assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns over the violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and called for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.