To make the international community “aware” of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire Azeri and Turkish scholars will form a joint working group. The decision was made at Armenian Issue in the History of Azerbaijan and Turkey international conference May 15. Head of the Department of Turkish History, professor Yusuf Khalachoglu, and rector of the Baku State University, Abel Maharramov, signed Baku declaration. The second item of the document envisages the establishment of the joint working group. Along with Maharramov and Khalachoglu, the head of the Institute of Azerbaijani History, Yagub Mahmudov, and the chairman of ATIB, Ahmed Erentok are to be other 2 co-chairs of the group.
The working group will meet every 3 moths in Baku and Ankara by turn. The first gathering will be held in Ankara. Moreover, in compliance with the Baku Declaration, with respect to inform the international community about “the Khojaly tragedy, as well as those that happened from the beginning of the 20th century to 1992,” it was resolved to establish a Coordinating Center to be governed by ATIB.
