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25 June 2012 [13:10] - Today.Az
Paris-based L`Harmattan publishing house has published an English version of a book on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by Fazil Zeynalov, a professor at Baku State University.
Titled "Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Just Peace or Imminent War", the book was launched in French in 2011.
The book highlights historic roots of the Armenia- Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The author stresses the fact that thousands of Iranian and Turkish Armenians were resettled in the Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhchivan and other Azerbaijani lands after the signing of the Treaty of Turkmenchay.
Multiple French, English, Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijani sources were used during the writing of the work, which covers the historical, geopolitical and legal basis of the conflict. Professor Zeynalov initially details historic sources from the Caucasian Albanian and Middle Ages; the work of the Russian Orientalists in the 19th–20th centuries; and outlines the discoveries of prominent Azerbaijani historians.
The author researched processes in the Nagorno-Karabakh taking place after 1991 and showed the Armenian separatists` policy regarding the region. The book mainly focuses on the resolution of the conflict by peaceful means and through negotiations, which would be based on international law and on mutual agreement of the parties.
Zeynalov notes that Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council`s four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions. He also writes that efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. – which is currently mediating the peace negotiations, have not yet produced any results.
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