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" #NagornoKarabakh itself declared its affilliation to #Azerbaijan and #Stalin announced 1920 that #Armenia abandons any claims on the region"
This is what an official document, a brief summary of the #Artsakh conflict, claims.
https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/804162/044e85d902e5e7e196a8b73f5dbdd36a/Krieg_Bergkarabach-data.pdf
This is what an official document, a brief summary of the #Artsakh conflict, claims.
https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/804162/044e85d902e5e7e196a8b73f5dbdd36a/Krieg_Bergkarabach-data.pdf
They do not provide a source for that. Not even a date when exactly #NagornoKarabakh apparently declared that is part of #Azerbaijan. Going by the events described before and after this sentence, they must believe that it happened between 1917 and 1920.
Just - it did not.
Just - it did not.
I have made them aware. Twice. They changed some of the 20+ other factual flaws in that one-pager, but not this one. They repeatedly did not substantiate this sentence or even argue why it is not amended. They just categorically wrote:
"In this short format, there is not enough room to have a historic debate or a discourse in international law and we do not provide sources or literature references for this".
This is coming from the SCIENTIFIC SERVICE of the German parliament.
This is coming from the SCIENTIFIC SERVICE of the German parliament.
As a scientist, this really bothers me. I have spoken to about 20+ experts from 10+ countries on this point by now - including from #Armenia and #Azerbaijan. No one ever heard of an apparent declaration of #NagornoKarabakh to be part of #Azerbaijan at that time.
The "one-pager", which is used to give MPs a first insight into what the conflict is about is stating something very crucial as a fact without substantiating it that goes AGAINST the scientific consensus.
The scientific service of our parliament rejects science, one could say.
The scientific service of our parliament rejects science, one could say.
