23 August 2000

It is natural that all the territory of Azerbaijan are its historical lands. Even a large part of the current Armenia’s territory belongs to Azerbaijan. Zangezur is entirely Azerbaijani land. At one time, most of the people who lived there were Azerbaijanis. But after the establishment of the Soviet power, when the borders of the republics in the Soviet Union were demarcated in 1920, a part of Azerbaijan’s land was given to Armenia.