STEPANAKERT. - After Karabakh schoolgirl Adeline Avakimyan received an answer from Baku to the letter she addressed to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, journalists of independent newspaper Nor Edge decided to find out how much the answer satisfied her.
“You cannot call that an answer because an employee of Azernaijani presidential administration named Aslanov did not give an outright answer to any of my questions, although his letter was twenty times longer than mine,” said Adeline.
“I wrote that President Aliyev always speaks about Karabakh and war as if he has nothing else to think of and no other problems or goals actually trouble him. I asked, why he always thinks of invading our country. Why do they need Karabakh, which is not theirs? Isn’t he satisfied with his own lands? I also wrote that if he starts a new war the whole Armenian nation will rise to defend our land but he, his children, relatives and friends will hardly go fighting – they will send ordinary Azerbaijani youth.
I asked the President why he always buys guns when he could have used that money to build an easy and happy life for your people. Isn’t it better than sending people to war? If I knew I will get this kind of reply I would never write that letter. Instead of answering my questions, they turned to telling fairy tales. They think I don’t know the history of my country and try to fool me. What I badly dislike is that they referred to me as Azerbaijani citizen and called Stepanakert Xankandi. As if they, the strangers, are to deice how to call my hometown,” she said.
Asked about the invitation to visit Azerbaijan, Adeline said she cannot accept the invitation.
“How can they invite me to Azerbaijan when in response to my letter Azerbaijani filled Internet with threats to destroy all the Armenians, began to call me and my compatriots with all sorts of dirty words. They think that I don’t know how they killed and expelled thousands of Armenians living in Azerbaijan. I got convinced how aloof they are to me. I don’t believe them. Instead I would offer them to come and see that there are Armenian alphabet letters carved on the stones of Gandzasar, Amaras and other ancient temples of Artsakh,” said Adeline.
On August 8, a schoolgirl from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic Adenile Avakimyan sent a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
“Mr. President,
Every time I watch TV, I read or listen to the stories of elders I get surprised: all the time you speak about Karabakh and war as if you have nothing else to think of. It seems you do not have any other problems or goals and no other issue actually troubles you.
I never saw an Azerbaijani. I do not think about you, about your country and neither do my parents. I do not really understand what you want from our country. I know that you have never been to Artsakh, you have never seen our Gandzasar, Dadivank, Amaras but you always think about capturing our country. Why can’t you be satisfied with your own lands? Why do you want Karabakh? Grandpa told me that before the war, even 50 or 100 years ago, when Azerbaijanis still lived here, they did not bury their deceased here, they took them to Azerbaijan, because people knew that this is not their motherland. That is why we have so few Azerbaijani cemeteries,” reads her letter.
