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The presentation of the book denoted to the issue of Nakhichevan was held in the hall after Paleanner of YSU yesterday on 10th of March. The author is the head of the chair of International relations and Diplomacy of the faculty of International relations of YSU professor Edik Zohrabyan.
The book "Nakhichevan issue in 1920-1921" is the last third volume of the book denoted to this issue.
Actually professor Zohrabyan is the only person who studies Nakhichevan problem so deeply. He created valuable work, which is based on thoroughly studied archival materials.
"We know that Nakhichevan problem is one of the most complicated problems in our history. The complexity is that first of all it is the problem of Armenian- Azerbaijani, Armenian –Turkish, Armenian- Russian diplomatic and political relation",- said YSU rector congratulating the author and those who were present.
The rector also hoped that the three volumes would be translated into English and would be spread with the help of Internet, so that the foreign reader will understand what Nakhichevan issue is and why it is important for us.
"This voluminous monograph is the result of the author’s prolonged work. In the work based mainly on the archival documents it is revealed what sequences had Kemal - Bolshevik cooperation on Armenia>>. The author examined the bases of the Azerbaijani approach over this issue in Moscow and Kars conferences",-mentioned in his speech the dean of the Faculty of International relations of YSU Gegham Petrosyan.
Scientific secretary of the department of Humanities and Armenian studies of NAS RA Vladimir Barkhudaryan, the head of the chair of the Armenian history of YSU Babken Harutyunyan, the head of the chair of the Armenian history of the Armenian State Pedagogical University, professor Mher Karapetyan, Doctor of History, professor Vahan Bayburdyan, the editor of the magazine "Banber Yerevani Hamalsarani" Hrachik Mirzoyan spoke about the content of the book and thanked the author.
"It is a great impact on the diplomatic history of the Armenian issue. But these kind of qualitative researches only remain in the frames of our readers and don’t become the subject of study of international diplomacy and historiography. We, historians, should also publish such kind of qualitative works in foreign languages and spread them abroad",- said deputy minister of Foreign affairs, Doctor of History Arman Kirakosyan while congratulating Edik Zohrabyan.
"Nakhichevan is a territory of historical Armenia and we can’t be indifferent to this issue. The ways of solving this issue, the role of it in Armenian-Azerbaijani, Armenian-Russian, and Armenian-Turkish relations are given, how and why the issue was moved to the sphere of Russian-Turkish relations, and Soviet Armenia was moved out from the process of diplomatic solution, the discussion of the issue at conferences, the last one was the conference of Kars in 1921",- mentioned the author of the book Edik Zohrabyan
At the presentation of the book "Nakhichevan issue in 1920-1921" the partners of the author from NAS RA and YSU, as well as the students of YSU were present.
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