(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Rashid Shirinov
Azerbaijani textbooks do not instill feelings of hatred to any nation, including Armenians, and there is no incitement to hatred in them, the deputy education minister of Azerbaijan said.
Jeyhun Bayramov made the remark when responding to anti-Azerbaijani statements of Armen Ashotyan, the head of the Armenian delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly at the conference in Baku.
'You forget that Armenia has occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands and still keeps them under occupation, Bayramov said. 'More than one million Azerbaijanis were expelled from their native lands; cultural monuments, educational institutions were destroyed.
The event is dedicated to involving parliaments of the Eastern Partnership member states in promoting gender equality and women's health within the Sustainable Development Goals. Previously Armen Ashotyan opposed discussion of the Nagorno-Karabakh topic at the conference.
The event was jointly organized by the Parliament of the country, the Committee for Social Affairs, Education, Culture and Civil Societies of the Parliamentary Assembly Euronest, and the European Parliament Forum on Population and Development and the UN Office in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with signing of a fragile ceasefire in 1994. Since the war, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.
Moreover, Armenian invaders destroyed, burned down and looted numerous monuments belonging to the Azerbaijani culture and history in the occupied territories. After the occupation of these lands, Armenians started a policy of falsifying the real history of Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh, trying to present the remaining monuments as Armenian.
Many cemeteries, mausoleums, monuments, mosques, temples, burial mounds and other samples of Azerbaijan's cultural heritage in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan regions were destroyed.
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