Azerbaijan has always sought and now seeks to maintain friendly and good neighborly relations with Iran, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Social and Political Department Chief Ali Hasanov told journalists on Thursday. A delegation headed by Hasanov will visit Iran on Dec. 2-5.

Hasanov said unfortunately, in recent years some groups in Iran and Azerbaijan deliberately or unconsciously take steps that could damage relations between the two countries in social and political relations, press, broadcasting and propaganda, and his visit mainly aims to put an end to it.

The meetings in Iran will discuss bilateral relations in the sphere of information, broadcasting, public institutions' attitude to in-country processes, as well as issues arising from the various interviews and statements.

Baku reacted to the denial of the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh [Azerbaijan's enclave under Armenian occupation] from the dialogue with Azerbaijani community, which was to be held in Berlin on Nov. 28.

The negotiations between the two communities are one of the main directions of resolving the relations, Head of the Presidential Administration Public and Political Department Ali Hasanov told media in Baku today. He stressed that official Baku attaches great importance to this issue.

"The Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh was always ready to participate in the negotiations," he said. "But it is necessary to understand why the Armenians have not attended the talks. This means that they do not want to stop their policy of aggression and use the negotiations to delay the problem. Azerbaijan has repeatedly stated that this policy has no future. Ultimately, this somehow may lead to military confrontation."

He said Armenian formal and informal bodies seek to avoid any negotiations, trying to prolong the situation after the occupation of Azerbaijani territories and achieving certain goals.

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The origin of ancient Albanian cultural samples, situated in the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia, are being specified through the appropriate bodies, Ali Hasanov told media.

He said, in particular, the Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences consider the issue of the disputed David Gareji monastery located on the border of the two countries. Hasanov noted Azerbaijan is studying the belonging of Caucasian Albania's historical monuments.

"Some individuals attempted to misappropriate Albanian monuments in Soviet times because of the weakness of Albanian history studies and poor protection of these monuments by the Azerbaijani government," he said. "Representatives of the Orthodox Church and other religious movements tried to misappropriate some monuments. Somehow, they were able to achieve this in some places."

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The Armenians falsify ancient and modern history, Ali Hasanov said at the International Scientific Conference "Role of Caucasian Albania in the history of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus" in Baku today.

Hasanov said that the whole world witnesses the falsification of ancient and modern history by the Armenians. Armenian historians create myths and create their history on this basis.

Thus, they deceive the whole world science, by placing false information in the various political encyclopedias. The Armenians try to falsify the history of the South Caucasus, he said. "Attributing the ethnic structure, the entire culture, life, all good things that the peoples of the South Caucasus have, the Armenians are trying to appropriate this all," he said. "They consider other nations as nomads, having no idea about the culture."

He said no nation will leave the South Caucasus. People will not go away, by leaving everything to someone else. "We must create our history, by looking at the future," he said. "We must know who and how lived here and how arrived here. But the future cannot be built on the past."

/Trend/