evidence: At the beginning of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, precisely on January 15, 1990, Armenian detachments entered the Azerbaijani enclave Qyarqi situated in the Ararat province, not far from the border with Nakhijevan. Qyarqi village, through which the Yerevan-Meghri road had been built, was later renamed as Tigranashen. In July 1992, the Armenian forces seized a gun post located in the Azerbaijani enclave of Upper Askipara (or Aksipara), and allowed its population to flee to Azerbaijan through a corridor. During the same period, Armenians took control over Barkhudarly and Sofulu villages. On August 8, 1992, Artsvashen fell after five days of fierce fighting. The cause of this defeat has been a topic of hot debate up to date. Some say that the forces were unequal; some say that Armenia and Azerbaijan had just "exchanged" the enclaves. [...] In 1923-29, the Transcaucasian central executive committee formed a commission dealing with the territorial disputes and resolving them exclusively against Armenia. The so-called exchange of territories was carried out one-sidedly at the expense of Armenian lands, giving part of them to Azerbaijan. Thus, in January 1927, the territory of about 12 thousand hectares from Bashkend to Dilijan was ‘gifted’ to Azerbaijan’s Ghazakh district. As ‘compensation’, in February 1929, under the central executve committee’s decision, Armenia got a connection with Bashkend through a strip of land, which was however, given to Azeris in 1930s, making Artsvashen Armenia’s exclave in Azerbaijan.