Armenian media outlets are trying to sweep under the carpet the gaffe made by Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan during a critical panel on the South Caucasus at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2025. Thus, the top minister inadvertently revealed more than intended with a slip of the tongue, stating: ‘…we all know that the First Azerbaijani Republic declared its sovereignty over much larger territories than the current Republic of Azerbaijan, including over 60 percent of present-day Armenian territories.’

To provide insight into the issue, the Armenian side and their supporters worldwide have not missed any platform to plant story that Garabagh has never been part of Azerbaijan. Blatantly repudiating all historical facts, they claimed that Garabagh was not under sovereignty of short-lived Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan which existed from 1918 to 1920 in the wake of collapse of Russian Empire.........

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