Azerbaijan removes references toMoscow and Kars Treaties from  preamble of Nakhichevan Constitution

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani authorities continue to falsify history: references to the Moscow and Kars Treaties have been removed from the preamble of the Constitution of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.

According to Azerbaijani media, the Azerbaijani parliament today  approved amendments to the draft constitutional law of Azerbaijan "On  Approval of Amendments to the Constitution of the Nakhichevan  Autonomous Republic."

With a single stroke of the pen, the Azerbaijani authorities removed  from the preamble of the current Constitution the reference to  Nakhichevan's autonomy being established by international  treaties-the Treaty of Moscow of March 16, 1921, and the Treaty of  Kars of October 13, 1921, both of which are currently in  effect-replacing it with the statement that the region "is an  integral part of the Republic of Azerbaijan."

Nakhichevan, before being transferred to the control of the  Azerbaijani SSR in the early 1920s, was part of Armenia and a region  with a predominantly Armenian population. Today, the Azerbaijani  authorities have completely erased any trace of Armenian presence in  the region.