BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. Unfortunately, in Armenian historiographic signs, every step you make, you see the fakes, including with respect to Azerbaijani lands, including with respect to the history of Karabakh, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"By the way, I can tell you that this fake history policy last 5-6 years even had a new dimension. They started to officially name Azerbaijani cities with Armenian names, with fake names, including, for instance, city of Shusha, which they started to call Shushi, which never was Shushi. By the way, I don’t know what Shushi means and why Shushi must be considered an Armenian name. I don’t understand. If you look at all the maps, historical maps, if you look at Soviet encyclopedia, you will see Shusha. But, that is a product of the recent 5-6 years. Also, the fake history about Armenians in Azerbaijan. We know the history and it is clear. Also, it can be seen in Wikipedia. Look at the Kurakchay peace agreement, 1805. Who signed it? Ibrahim Khan, Karabakh and Shusha, and Russia general. There was no mentioning of Armenians. Armenians started to be brought to that area from Persia, Eastern Anatolia later, after the Turkmanchay and Gulustan agreements. All these are historical facts. We don’t say that because they live in Karabakh for 200 years, they should be ethnically cleansed. No. But, the history should not be manipulated with. And the same is with some other historical so-called documents, which they try to present. But, I think that if we want to achieve the goal, I think the main area of concentration should be future, because, if to go too far in the history, that is actually what is the reason for Armenian failure, because they always dreamed how to achieve something, which they thought they lost, they always were basing their ideology and education on the past and they lost the future," the head of state said.