Azerbaijani nationalists have started yet another “map correction campaign” by writing angry e-mails to the European Parliament for publishing a map with Nagorno Karabakh listed as an independent country.

What’s hilarious about the campaign is that it has started by a person who is supposed to be a scholar, assuming from his title, Javid Huseynov, PhD Candidate at the University of California Irvine. Mr. Huseynov, in a mass e-mail to Southern California Azerbaijanis, instructs to “just copy and paste my letter,
replace my name with yours and email your letter to distweb@europarl.eu.int.”


This map made PhD candidate Javid Huseynov to start a “map correction campaign” against the European Parliament. Perhaps, European Parliament’s strong condemnation of Azerbaijani destruction against Armenian heritage has made Mr. Huseynov that angry.

UCI PhD Candidate Huseynov writes in the early March 2006 e-mail, “For some reason, the geographical boundaries of Armenia and the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are specifically highlighted as international boundaries. This is a violation of international law, since Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized as an integral part of Azerbaijan by the UN, European Union, Council of Europe, United States, Russia, and all other international organizations and states.”

Huseynov concludes the letter by stating that the European Parliament violated international law by publishing a map with Nagorno Karabakh, “It's not acceptable for such highly respected organization as European Parliament to violate the international law, which it claims to respect.”

Apparently, whatever does not please Azerbaijani nationalists is a violation of international law! In any case, “map correction campaign” has succeeded once, when the New York Times published a “correction” that Nagorno Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan.