Armenia has promised to return the enclaves to Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan is talking about “eight villages.” Rouben Galichian, a geographer and cartographer, answered on what basis such demands were made before Armenia. “According to the constitution of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan does not have the right to demand an enclave, but if they speak from the point of view of force, they demand it, saying that they exist according to the Soviet maps.
But pay attention to the Soviet days: they were given to Azerbaijan from 1936 to 1940, and the constitution of Azerbaijan is based on the Azerbaijan of 1918-20, so their views cannot be legal. And declaring: There is no such thing, seven enclaves, eight enclaves. There are 3 Azerbaijani enclaves in Armenia and 1 Armenian enclave on the territory of Azerbaijan.
But let’s see what Azerbaijan has done these days: in their 2014 atlas, they marked their enclaves in Armenia, and Artsvashen, considered an Armenian enclave, pretended that there is no longer an enclave in that map. Azerbaijan marks the ones found in Armenia but does not mark the enclave near it on the map. It counted that as its own.”
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