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2. GW. a) Give a short review of the text generalizing your point of view.
b) Find more information on the April Battles in 2016 and create a presentation.

Shusha - located in the western part of Azerbaijan, is the town most directly affected by the Garabagh conflict. In the spring of 1992 Armenian invaders occupied the town. The town’s people have always imagined their town to be invincible. To this day, Shusha is still under the occupation of Armenian military forces. For Azerbaijanis, Shusha is considered to be “the Heart of Garabagh”, “the Conservatoire of the Caucasus” and “the Paradise of the Caucasus”. We are especially proud of its culture, beautiful carpets, brilliant musicians and eloquent poets. The fact that no Azerbaijanis live there today is felt as a deep psychological wound and insult. The government of Azerbaijan tries to solve the problem in a peaceful way and we believe that using appropriate foreign policy instruments, the government will return our occupied territories to Azerbaijani people sooner or later. We do hope to free our Shusha and the whole Garabagh from invaders and see all the refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDP) go back to their home land. We’ll be happily celebrating this great day.

The April Battles once again clearly proved that Azerbaijan has not reconciled and will never reconcile itself to the loss of its occupied territories. During four April days, from 1 to 5 April, Armenia started the same aggressive actions and barbarities against Azerbaijan as it had in the early 1990s. As a result at the counter offensive, Azerbaijan Military Forces managed to destroy enemy’s plan and free about 2,000 ha of territories. We strongly believe that one day if not peacefully, then using our military forces we’ll liberate our occupied territories from the enemy.

3. | PW. Find out what these numbers stand for and express your attitude to the facts given in the text generalizing your point of view on them.

20 1992 1988 1994 2000 3 232 99 2016 28
*Invincible - incapable of being overcome or subdued