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The 'Stone Dreams' novel will cause even more upset for the Azerbaijani people and the national and state interests of Azerbaijan in the future, Head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's Social and Political Department Ali Hasanov said.

He was commenting on the translation of Akram Aylisli's novel into Armenian and the staging of it in that country.

"All subsequent generations in Azerbaijan will suffer the consequences of this disgusting work. In each period the Armenian state with its ideological structures and the Armenian Diaspora will use Akram Naibov's anti-Azerbaijani position against us. We should be ready to respond to this with real facts," Hasanov said.

The scandalous novel 'Stone Dreams' by Akram Aylisli (Naibov), which distorts the historical facts, was published in the Armenian language in Armenia.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against the neighboring country. Since a lengthy war between the two South Caucasus countries that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis and ended with the signing of a precarious cease-fire in 1994, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Peace talks brokered by Minsk Group co-chairs representing the United States, Russia and France have been largely fruitless so far.

The negotiations are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles, also known as Basic Principles. The document envisions a return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control; determining the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh; a corridor linking Armenia to the region; and the right of all internally displaced persons to return home.