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November 4, Fineko/abc.az. How many people of different nationalities lived in Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous district in the end of 1970s? Almost 25% of the population there were Azerbaijanis. 40,000 people. Shusha was inhabited by Azerbaijanis by 98%. Today, there is no one Azerbaijani.

ABC.AZ reports that President Ilham Aliyev stated about this in an interview for Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

“Azerbaijanis made 100% population in Hadrut district, in other districts, Khojali, where they committed a genocide. So, they have been all ethnically cleansed, killed, tortured and expelled. And unfortunately, no one, no one accused Armenia of that. We did not see any sanctions on Armenia. We did not see any serious information supporting us. So, that was done and they created reality on the ground. This is the first thing. Second thing, 200 years ago, there were no Armenians at all there. Because I many times referred to the treaties which Karabakh khan signed with the Russian Empire. Nothing is said about ethnic Armenians in the Kurakchay Treaty of 1805.

Ethnic Armenians were brought to that region from eastern Anatolia and Persia, by Tsarist Russia in order to change religious and ethnic composition of the region,” the Azerbaijani leader said.