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Azeri president demands erasure of Armenian traces in occupied areas

AZERBIJAN’S President Ilham Aliyev vowed on Wednesday to wipe out all Armenian traces from territories that have come under Azeri occupation following the end of the recent conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

He was pictured in the occupied Hadrut region, where he threatened to erase the Armenian inscriptions from a 12th-century church, branding them “fake.”

Mr Aliyev, who has a PhD in history, claimed that “Armenians wanted to Armenianise this church by leaving inscriptions in Armenian” during his visit to the St Astvatsatsin Church in the village of Tsakuri.

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