From the speech of Great Leader Heydar Aliyev at the meeting dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Nakhchivan Republic
12 October 1999
Nakhchivan was isolated from most of Azerbaijan from a territorial point of view. During the demarcation of the 1920s, Zangezur was given to Armenia, as a result of which Nakhchivan was separated from the mainland of Azerbaijan.
