Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Presidential Library under Administrative Department of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan hosted the presentation "Genocides of 1918 against the Azerbaijan people" book prepared and published on the basis of a joint project of ANAS Institute of History named after A. Bakikhanov and the Military Prosecutor.

Opening the event, Director of the Library Mail Ahmadov spoke about the importance of the presented book and stressed that, the new edition will be an important historical source.

Next, Director of the Institute of History, corresponding member of ANAS Yagub Mahmudov said that, the Armenian aggressors periodically carry out an aggressive policy and bloody crimes.

The scientist spoke about the genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis in 1918, added that, insidious enemy continues its aggressive policy.

Y.Mahmudov described the new book as a synthesis work, which tells about genocide and deportation, realized by Armenian military on the territory of Eastern Anatolia, South Azerbaijan, Erevan province, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and in future periods, as well as the aggressive policy of genocide and crimes of Armenians against the Azerbaijani people.

He noted that, in the creation of work, along with archival materials were also used photo-documents stored in the Memorial Museum of Genocide at the Military Prosecutor of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Also was stressed the importance of the translation of the book on various languages with a view to its dissemination to the international community.

At the event, the military prosecutor of Azerbaijan, Lieutenant-General Khanlar Veliyev also expressed his opinion about the new publication. He highly appreciated the scientific value of the book of the actual content and stressed its importance in the study of the history of Azerbaijan.

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