Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on publishing map of the "South Caucasus. 1903,”.
The orders reads: Recent years on mass media of different countries, the cases of spreading provocative materials, maps and atlases with distortion of territorial integrity, historical and geographical names as well as changing administrative boundaries and territorial units of the Republic of Azerbaijan have bee increased”. In order to prevent such provocations and to convey correct information on our country to the world community, I decide:
1. to publish “South Caucasus.1903” prepared by The State Committee for Land and Cartography of Azerbaijan on the basis of the map “karta kavkazkoqo voennoqo okruqa 1903-qo qod” composed in Russia in 1903
2. To allocate 225 thousand manat from The Reserve Fund of the President of Azerbaijan Republic considered in the State Budget of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2012.
3. to charge Ministry of Finance to provide funding considered in the second part of the order
4. To charge Cabinet of ministers to solve all the issue related to the order.