Shekher

Shekher (Azerbaijani: Şexer; Armenian: Շեխեր) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[3]

Shekher
Şexer
Շեխեր
Shekher
Shekher
Coordinates: 39°38′47″N 46°58′45″E
Country Azerbaijan
 Republic of Artsakh (claimed)[1]
DistrictKhojavend
Population
 (2015)[2]
 • Total407
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

The village came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s and subsequently became part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Martuni Province.

The village was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[4]

Partnerships

In October 2018, the village signed a friendship declaration with the Commune of Arnouville, France.[5] In June 2019, the French administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise declared that the signing breached French law by exceeding the authority of a municipal jurisdiction and by not respecting the international commitments of France (notably Nagorno-Karabakh's lack of recognition as a state), proclaiming the declaration null and void.[6]

References
  1. "Արցախի տարածքները համարվում են օկուպացված Ադրբեջանի կողմից. ԱՀ ԱԺ հայտարարությունը" [The territories of the Artsakh Republic, which are under the control of Azerbaijan so far, are considered to be occupied by the Republic of Azerbaijan]. armenpress.am (in Armenian). 1 March 2021. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  2. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  3. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  4. "Prezident: Azərbaycan Ordusu daha 48 kəndi, 1 qəsəbəni işğaldan azad edib". report.az (in Azerbaijani). 9 November 2020.
  5. "Artsakh's President Receives Delegation".
  6. Anne Collin. Arnouville : la charte d’amitié avec le Haut-Karabagh annulée par la justice. Le Parisien. 3 June 2019.
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