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“There are many books about Azerbaijan’s history, featuring Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in the light of Karabakh. Thinking it important to correctly represent Azerbaijan’s history, I wrote this book in a year and a half time, but I had been collecting the factual materials included in the book for years,” Aris Ghazinyan, the author of the book titled “Polygon Azerbaijan” said at the book’s launching ceremony.

The preparation work of the book was done by the Public Relation and Information Center of the RA President's Administration.

The author noted that the book consists of three parts. The first part dwells on the logic and history of the formation of the Azerbaijani nation. The second part represents Azerbaijan’s historiography. The third part gives the history of development of Azerbaijan’s statehood.

“Azerbaijan’s statehood was proclaimed in 1918 by Enver Pasha's brother, Nuri Pasha. Baku became the capital of Azerbaijan Republic only after Armenian massacres were committed in Baku in 1918,” said Ghazinyan, adding that Azerbaijan proclaimed statehood three times, and every time Azerbaijan became a republic the historical conditions implied Armenian massacres.

“There is a common opinion among us that the Azerbaijanis who were killing the Armenians were barbarian and half-educated. But it was not so. We must always remember that there were Azerbaijani intellectuals, editors, historians and engineers in the vanguard of Armenian massacres,” said he.

According to Ghazinyan, he tried to represent the true history because the international community and experts are not well aware of the issue, and the Azerbaijani propaganda machine constantly represents its own viewpoint, making it sound convincing.

The book gives Azerbaijan’s history in the context of global political processes, said the author.