Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 17 /Trend, K.Zarbaliyeva/
A secret network is dealing with linking part of Azerbaijan's territory with Armenia and conducting Armenization of Azerbaijani toponyms, MP Aydin Mirzazade told Trend, commenting on distortion of facts and presentation of Azerbaijani territories as Armenian lands in "Google Earth".
Recently the territory of Ordubad and Sederek districts of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, including the Hegram village, were noted as the territory of Armenia on this website.
Mirzazade does not believe that the German or Japanese experts are engaged in falsifying the map of Azerbaijan, noting that it is profitable for Armenia and pro-Armenian nationalist circles.
"They are trying to conduct Armenization of the territory of Azerbaijan and our toponyms.
Saying that the Azerbaijani public has been concerned over this problem for long, Mirzazade stressed that in books and on maps issued by printing companies of foreign countries, in Internet search engines, part of Azerbaijan's territory is shown as the territory of Armenia, Azerbaijani toponyms are shown in Armenian language.
"If such facts would be detected only in some cases, it would be possible to call it accidental, but it has become systemic. There are hundreds of such facts. After appeals of citizens and state agencies of Azerbaijan, developers of these maps promptly begin to make changes and apologize to Azerbaijan," said Mirzazade.
He believes that the true solution to the problem is operationability and fairness.
"While detecting such cases, it needs to appeal and point to the truth. I believe that this process will take a lot of time. We will many times face with the falsification of Azerbaijan's map. We must be careful and exercise efficiency, must appeal to the executive structure of the Google and require the elimination of errors," said the MP.