21 June 1996

As you know, in the past the territory of Azerbaijan was exceeding its current borders, the Goycha District, which is now in the hands of Armenia, or the Khanate of Iravan, Vedibasar, Zangibasar districts which are adjacent to Ighdir, were all part of Azerbaijan. Most of your great-grandfathers were from there. If you ask the people living in Ighdir where their roots are from, four or five out of ten people will say that they are either from Zangibasar, Vedibasar, Iravan, Borchali, Ganja, or Nakhchivan.