Baku "teaches history" to Russian Foreign Ministry

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry began to "teach history" to the Russian Foreign Ministry, deciding that they know the history of the Russian  Federation better than one of the world's superpowers itself. This  time they are consulting on the fact of describing the content of the  text of the Turkmenchay Treaty.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry accused the Russian Foreign Ministry  of distorting the text of the Turkmenchay Agreement on the official  website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"On the day of the signing of the Declaration on Allied Cooperation  between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation, the  fact that the distorted information on the Treaty of Turkmenchay of  1828 was published on the official website of the Russian Foreign  Ministry is surprisingly sad and regrettable," the statement of the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan reads.

So, Baku was touched by the presence of references to Armenia in the  text of the document. Thus, Baku assures that the expression "Eastern  Armenia" is not mentioned in any way in the text of the above-  mentioned agreement and calls on the Russian Foreign Ministry to  correct the allegedly unreliable information.  It should be noted  that the historical and documentary department of the Russian Foreign  Ministry published a text with some historical details yesterday.  In  particular, it recalls that on February 22 (10), 1828, the  Turkmanchay peace treaty was signed between the Russian Empire and  Persia, which ended the second Russian-Persian war of 1826-1828.

The Treaty confirmed Russia's pre-emptive right to keep a military  fleet in the Caspian Sea, as well as the freedom of navigation of  Russian merchant ships. The Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates (Eastern  Armenia) passed to the Russian Empire. The Iranian government  undertook not to interfere with the resettlement of Armenians in the  Armenian region established on the territory of these khanates, which  contributed to the unification of the Armenian people within the  Russian Empire.  The parties exchanged missions at the level of  envoys and established consular relations. Simultaneously with the  agreement, the "Trade Act" was signed, according to which Russian  merchants received the right to free trade throughout Iran.  The  Turkmenchay Peace was a major success for Russian diplomacy. It  contributed to the strengthening of Russia's influence in the Middle  East and became the basis of Russian-Persian relations until 1917.   The Russian poet and diplomat A.S. Griboyedov, who at that time  served as editor of the conference minutes, played an important role  in developing the terms of the Treaty. He made some important  clarifications in the text of the peace treaty - in particular, in  the part that concerned the conditions for the resettlement and  amnesty of the population of the border regions. Griboyedov also  compiled and edited the final text of the draft treaty. In October  1828 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Tabriz. On February  11 (January 30), 1829, an outstanding Russian diplomat tragically  died at his official post during a provoked attack on the Russian  mission in Tehran by a fanatical mob.