the user goldorack keeps on reverting the corrections may talk bytes the nagorno karabakh republic is a de facto independent state hence there is surely such a thing the respective wiki article is cited undo done in the section concerning the armenian monument controversy in my opinion the sentence azerbaijan complained to the ebu that the video clip was unacceptable due to the fact that the statue was on azerbaijani land should read as the statue is situated on a land claimed by azerbaijan the land cannot belong to a country azerbaijani land if the latter has no legal authority and physical presence in the land in order not to go deep into endless debates about the legal status of the nagorno karabakh republic i suggest a neutral formulation a land claimed by azerbaijan favoring neither armenian version nagorno karabakh republic nor azerbaijani azerbaijani land