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Artsakh State Minister Refutes Aliyev's NKAR Demographic Numbers

Artsakh State Minister Artsak Beglaryan has refuted a recent claim made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that Azerbaijanis have historically constituted a majority in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAR).

Beglaryan, in a Facebook post, writes that Azerbaijanis were only 4% of the NKAR’s population in 1921, when the region was handed over to Azerbaijan.

According to Soviet census figures, the Azerbaijani percentage of the NKAR’s population was:

1926 - 10.06%,

1939 - 9.32%,

1959 - 13.80%,

1970 - 18.08%,

1979 - 22.98%,

1989 - 21.52%

Beglaryan writes that these figures were compiled by Soviet Azerbaijani authorities, including Ilham Aliyev’s father, and are probably exaggerated.

Beglaryan says that the growing number of Azerbaijanis in the NKAR over the years was due to the “white genocide” committed against the indigenous Armenian population.

“The Azerbaijani authorities should remember once and for all that Artsakh has had an exclusively Armenian majority for three thousand years," Beglaryan writes.

Comments (3)

Tony Martin
Norah Dean you like all the Armenian separatists of Karabakh continue to ignore reality. There is no independent Artsakh state and there never will be, that is just pure fantasy! What there will be is just another province of Azerbaijan. If you cannot live with that then you need to leave while you can with dignity. Make no mistake any still holding such revanchist views will be expelled when the Russians leave in 2 years. Get used to this and plan your itinerary!
Sedrak M
Long live Armenians from Artsakh.
Norah Dean
What is the point in commenting on anything the Azeris say or do, there should be zero communication from the Armenian side. Although there is no fully agreed international agreement on how small populations become independent from larger countries of which they are a part, the NK Armenians went through the orrect steps to attain independence. What happened was an illegal Azeri attack on an independent country, the Independent Armenian Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. The only way forward is to go back to an independent NK. Not many Azeris really want to live in the cold Highlands, whatever the lying dog Aliyev says. So the Occupied territories of Nagorno Karabakh need to be returned to the government of NK, not to Armenia. That MUST be the starting point for any discussions. It is totally immaterial who recognises or doesn't recognise the independence of NK, or what land the insane morons in Azerbaijan regard as theirs.

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