The peace pacts of Gulustan and Turkmencay signed respectively in 1813 and 1828 laid the foundation of the division of the Azrbaijan people and of our historical territories. As a continuation of the national tragedy of the Azerbaijan people occupationof its lands began. Within a short period of yime this policy was turned into a reality and the Azerbaijan lands in mass from. The action of genoside became an integral part of the occupation of the Azerbaijani lands.

Though the Armenian population settled in the territories of the khanates of erevan, Nakhichivan and Garabag formed the minority in comparison with the Azerbaijanis, they managed to create an administrative-territorial division called "the Armenian province" under the protection of their supporters. Such an artificial territorial-administrative division in fact laid the foundation of the policy of ousting of the Azerbaijani population fromtheir own lands and their annihilation. The idea of "The Great Armenia" began to be propagated. In order "to justify the creation" of this invented state on the Azerbaijani lands large-scale programs began to be carried out aimed at the fasification of the history of the Armenian pople. The distortion of the history of Azerbaijan and of the Caucasus as a whole form an integral of these programs.

Inspired by the illusion to creat "the Great Armenia" the Armenian occupants committed large-scale bloody actions against the Azerbaijanis openly in 1905-1907. The barbarisms of Armenians which began in Baku soon covered the Azerbaijani villages in the territory of the present Armenia. Hundreds of dwelling settlements were ruined and levelled to the earth, thousands of Azerbaijanis were cruelly slaughtered. Obstacting to reveal to the world the true essence of these crimes, the organizers of these bloody crimes began to create the negative image of Azerbaijanis and viel their advertusist territorial claims.

Making a skillful use of the World War I, the February Revolutions of 1917 in Russia and the October overthrow in the same year the Armenians began to realize their claims under the Bolshevik banner. Since March of 1918 under the slogan to fight against anti-revolutionary elements the Baku Commune began to implement into life a reactionary plan aimed at cleaning of Azerbaijanis from the whole Baku province. The crimes committed by the Armenians on those days have remained in the memory of the Azerbaijan people for ever. Thousands of peaceful and civil Azerbaijanis were murdered only because of their national adherence. The Armenians set the houses on fire, burned pople alive. The pearls of the national architecture, schools, hospitals, mosques and other monuments were destroyed, a great part of Baku was turned into ruins.

The genocide of Azerbaijanis was carried out in the provinces of Baku, Shamakhi, Guba, in Garabag, Zangazur, Nakhchivan, Lankaran and other regions of Azerbaijan with a particular brutality. The population were massacred in mass form in these territories, the villages were burnt, the national cultural monuments were destroyed and ruined.

Azerbaijan paid a special attention to the events of March 1918 after the establishment of the Peoples Republic. The Council of Ministers adopted a decision on June 15, 1918 on the formation of a special commission for the investigation of this crime. The Commission investigated the heavy crimes committed in Shamakhi and the province of Erevan first. A special group was formed under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey the truth to the world public. The 31st of March of 1919 and 1920 for the first time were noted as the day of national mourning by the Poples Republic of Azerbaijan. In fact, it was the first attemp in the history to give a political estimation to the policy of genocide against the Azerbaijanis and to the processes connected with the occupation of our lands which continues over a century. But the fall of the Peoples Republic of Azerbaijan prevented to carry out this work to the end.

Making use of the Sovietisation of the Transcaucasus for their dirty goals the Armenians declared Zangazur and a number of other Azerbaijani lands Armenian territories. In future to expand the policy of deportation of Azerbaijanis from these lands they took to other new means. For this purpose they managed the adoption of a special resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the transmigration of the collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population to the valley of Kur. Araz of the Azerbaijani SSR from the Armenians SSR and the mass deportation of Azerbaijanis from their historical lands in 1948-1953.

The Armenian nationalists began a great moral compaign of aggression against the Azerbaijan people with the help of their supporters since 1950. In the former Soviet space they began to prove in books and periodicals that the best examples of our national culture, classical heritage and monuments of architecture belonged to the Armenian people. At the same time the efforts to formulate the negative image of "the miserable Armenian people" the events of the region at the beginning of the century wer intentionally distored, committers of the genocide of Azerbaijanis were presented as victims of genocide. At the beginning of the century the Azerbaijanis which formed the majority in Erevan and later from other parts of the Armenian SSR were subjected to persecution and driven out in mass forms. The rights of Azerbaijanis were severely violated by the Armenians, obstacles were formed for them to get education in Azerbaijani, and other actions of repression were committed against them. The historical names of the Azerbaijani villages ere changed, the process of substitution of the ancient toponymns, a matchless example in the history of toponymy, with the modern names, began.

The falsified Armenian history was raised to the level of state policy in order to form a basis for the education of the young Armenians in spirit of chauvinism. Our young generation, educated in the spirit of the Azerbaijan literature and culture which served great humanist ideals, was subjected to persecutions of the extremist Armenian ideology. The slanders directed against the morals, national pride, ego of the Azerbaijan people created an ideological basis for political and military aggression. As the policy of genocide against our nation was not politically and legally estimated, the historical facts were distorted by the Armenian in the Soviet press and the public opinion was confused.

The administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan did not necessarily appreciate in its time, the growing anti-Azerbaijani propagation in the mid 80's which the Armenians implemented into life benefitting from the Soviet regime. The Republic of Azerbaijan also did not give a right political estimation to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their historical territoriesat the initial stage of the Upper Garabag conflict invented in 1988.

Our people seriously objected against the anticonstitutional decision of Armenians on the inclusion of the Autonomous Province of Mountainous Garabag of Azerbaijan into the Armenian SSR and exclusion of this province by Moscow from the subordination of Azerbaijan by the Special Administration Committee and was obliged to take to important political actions.

Though the policy of occupation of our lands were decisively denounced at the meetings held in the republic the administration of Azerbaijan remained passive in its position. Just as the reult of this in order to surpress the growing national movement the Soviet troops were thrown to Baku in January of 1990, thousands of Azerbaijanis were killed, invalidated, wounded and subjected to other physical pressures. In February 1992 the Armenians massacred the population of the town of Khojali in an incomparable manner. This bloody tragedy reflected in our history as the genocide of Khojali ended with the murder and captivity of thousands of Azerbaijanis and the complete destruction of the town.

As a result of the adventurist actions begun in the Upper Garabag by the nationalist, separatist Armenians today over a million of our compatriots, have left their native homes and forced to live in tents. 20 per cent of our territory has been occupied by the armed troops of Armenia, thousands of our citizens have become martyrs, injured and wounded.