Counting notes
How totals and monthly charts are counted, with coverage limits and source downloads.
Reading the totals and charts
Each source record retains its format, topic and available dates. Repeated captures are merged while preserving original IDs. A missing publication date stays unknown; documented event dates are labelled separately.
Totals cover the collected material; categories use different units and can overlap. Statements, meetings and conferences count source records by month. Heritage counts named claim targets once. Threats are a reviewed sample, not an exhaustive count. Each chart has its own scale; a gap does not establish inactivity.
Education charts count named universities and schools with a usable month in the core register, once per institution per month. One institution may appear in several months. They use the activity, announcement or report date identified in the record; these dates do not all indicate completed events. Year-only references and records without a usable month are excluded from the charts and remain in the totals. Two schools listed together count as two institutions.
Heritage charts count each named target once, in its earliest source-record month. Catalog dates are estimates from image filenames, not confirmed publication dates.
Reference lines: August 2022 · WAC name and charter approved; September 2022 · Azerbaijan’s attack on Armenia; December 2022 · Aliyev opens WAC headquarters; Karabakh Armenians’ displacement · September 2023; Washington Declaration · 8 August 2025. The markers are context, not additional activity records.
Method and record cutoff
Public sources and attributed figures. Personal-status, entitlement, territorial and historical assertions remain source claims. Dates, overlaps, unavailable texts and differences in source wording are preserved.
Record cutoff: . Reported figures retain the dates and scope of their original sources.
Audit results
- Original rows
- 477
- Listing records
- 862
- Repeated capture rows merged
- 56
- Additional source records
- 441
- Universities
- 17
- Schools
- 14
- Descriptions available
- 71 / 71
- Reviewed source records
- 862
- Reviewed rhetoric records
- 15
Source charts use publication dates where known. When the publication date is unconfirmed, a documented event date is used and labelled. Institution charts retain their reviewed activity or report months.
Related records retain their original attribution and scope. A publication may appear in the source register without establishing Community organization, a partnership or a completed event. Institution totals include only separately reviewed institutions.
Source checks use available primary pages and indexed primary-source snapshots. Inaccessible originals and unresolved details remain marked. A checked source does not verify its historical, territorial or entitlement claims.
31 October recheck: 795 existing source URLs tested; 794 responded successfully. All 782 parsed publication dates and 757 comparable article texts matched the previous captures. One school-source request failed; one large PDF was checked by headers and prefix only. These are source-stability checks, not independent verification of the assertions.
This pass added 12 source reports, eight reviewed claim/demand publications, one coercive warning and two historical grant-award notices. Repeated reports were attached as corroboration. Searches covered issuer archives, interviews, university and school hosts, government records, UN documents, OSCE programmes and co-organizers. Social-media originals and complete coverage of 29–31 October remain unresolved.
The archive was expanded beyond its original three category indexes. 118 index pages were retrieved across seven categories. Recovered pages and publication passages were assessed for relevance, form, dates, attribution and duplicates. This is an expanded, source-based collection, not certification of every statement or exhaustive coverage of all media.
Additional-language research added 16 source reports, nine claim/demand publications and three historical records. Three university hosts and one school were added. Translations, later accounts and document circulation remain attached to their underlying records; no additional current-period threat was authenticated.
Additional search languages (24): Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Arabic, Persian, Georgian, Chinese, Urdu, Hebrew, Hungarian, Serbian, Portuguese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Greek, Bulgarian, Japanese and Hindi.
Language coverage varies from focused name/topic queries to full primary-text and metadata checks. No exhaustive census of every language or platform is claimed. An archived October 2020 body confirms earlier public WAC-name usage, not legal continuity with the 2022 entity. A2021 archive-index entry whose body could not be retrieved is kept distinct from a verified archived text.
The expanded archive also reviews general news, presentations, exhibitions and international cooperation. Only source-backed records are admitted; duplicate routes, personal-only material and unresolved date conflicts are assessed separately. Publication counts are not unique-event totals.
Content and activity counts measure different things. Threats, demands and claims may appear in statements, meetings or conferences, so their totals must not be added together. The activity overview counts source publications by format; education and heritage targets use separate units.
Publications containing both appear in each section; the totals overlap.
Reviewed wording archive15 Reviewed publications
This is a broad wording register. Conditional coercion, warnings, armament demands and territorial rhetoric are distinguished; the total is not a count of explicit military threats.
- Conditional coercion
- 3
- Retribution warning
- 1
- Indirect warning
- 4
- Disarmament demand
- 1
- Demand to halt armament
- 4
- Military-policy demand
- 1
- Territorial strength rhetoric
- 1
Coercive and hostile language
Reviewed wording is classified by speaker and document type. Interviews and formal institutional statements remain separate. This register is a documented sample.
| Date and speaker / document | Recorded content | Descriptive classification | Reviewed dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-18 / WAC institutional statement | Condemns the French CAESAR artillery sale and demands that Armenia end its large-scale armament programme. | Arms-policy condemnation and demand [96] | Publication date: 2024-06-18 · Chart months: Jun 2024 · Source metadata checked |
| 2025-01-10 / Aziz Alekberli, WAC chair; Report interview republished by WAC | Links acceptance of the campaign to Armenians’ ability to remain in the region and warns against forcing Azerbaijan to seek alternative routes. Also asserts peaceful intentions. | Conditional coercion; unspecified alternatives [97] | Publication date: 2025-01-10 · Chart months: Jan 2025 · Source metadata checked |
| 2025-02-10 / WAC institutional statement | Demands that Armenia halt its armament programme and return heavy and modern offensive weapons to the seller. The same statement says there is no military threat against Armenia and asserts respect for territorial integrity. | Disarmament demand [98] | Publication date: 2025-02-10 · Chart months: Feb 2025 · Source metadata checked |
| 2025-02-27 / Aziz Alekberli, reported by the event organizer Baku Engineering University | The university attributes to him confidence in having the strength to return to every inch of the lands said to have been lost. | Territorial language invoking strength [35] | Publication date: 2025-02-27 · Chart months: Feb 2025 · Source metadata checked |
| 2026-01-07 / Aziz Alekberli, interview with Xalq qezeti | Warns that the nation/state responsible for alleged heritage crimes will pay heavily; agent and method unspecified. | Collective retribution rhetoric [1] | Publication date: 2026-01-07 · Chart months: Jan 2026 · Source metadata checked |
| 2026-09-16 / WAC institutional statement | Alleges fabricated history and a toxic ideology and points to the consequences of previous Armenian policy before calling on Armenian society to abandon Miatsum and avoid provocations. | Warning invoking past consequences [99] | Publication date: 2026-09-16 · Chart months: Sep 2026 · Source metadata checked |
| 2026-09-19 / Aziz Alekberli, Moderator.az interview republished by WAC | Describes the existence of Armenia and Armenians in the South Caucasus as the greatest threat to peace/security; says claimed return will occur regardless of Armenian wishes and refusal of a peaceful path legitimizes alternative means. | Conditional nonpeaceful alternatives; collective hostility [100] | Publication date: 2026-09-19 · Chart months: Sep 2026 · Source metadata checked |
Review sources7
Sources for these records7
- Xalq qəzeti. Interview with WAC chair Aziz Alekberli, 7 January 2026, p. 10. Cumulative figures are the interviewee’s own account.
- Baku Engineering University. “We will return!” conference, jointly organized with Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and WAC. 27 February 2025.
- WAC institutional statement, 2024-06-18. Rhetoric record; exact speaker and document type retained.
- Aziz Alekberli, WAC chair; Report interview republished by WAC, 2025-01-10. Rhetoric record; exact speaker and document type retained.
- WAC institutional statement, 2025-02-10. Rhetoric record; exact speaker and document type retained.
- WAC institutional statement, 2026-09-16. Rhetoric record; exact speaker and document type retained.
- Aziz Alekberli, Moderator.az interview republished by WAC, 2026-09-19. Rhetoric record; exact speaker and document type retained.
Additional reviewed wording
| Date and speaker / document | Recorded content | Wording category | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
WAC institutional statement | After alleging an Armenian border provocation, warns Armenia not to repeat the mistakes of its first republic. Historical allusion to adverse consequences; no future operation, agent or method of harm is specified. | Indirect warning | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Demands that Pashinyan end Armenia’s large-scale armament policy and facilitate the Community’s claimed return campaign. The statement also asserts respect for territorial integrity. It specifies a policy demand, without naming a threatened military action. | Demand to halt armament | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Responding to Alen Simonyan, invokes the outcome of the 2020 war for Armenia before demanding that Armenian officials change their rhetoric. A warning through past consequences; the text does not announce a new armed operation. | Indirect warning | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Demands an immediate end to Armenia’s armament policy while rejecting Pashinyan’s characterization of the campaign as a territorial claim. The text presents the campaign as peaceful and declares respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity; no specific threatened attack is stated. | Demand to halt armament | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Endorses Aliyev’s demand that Armenia stop arming and repeats that demand in the Community’s own list of requirements to the Armenian government. A WAC institutional statement endorsing a president’s position; attribution remains separate from the original presidential interview. No specific armed operation is named. | Demand to halt armament | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Invokes the later fate of Pashinyan and Armenia after his stated conditions in 2020, while demanding withdrawal from Karabakh and dialogue with the Community. The warning invokes a previous adverse outcome; it does not name a future attack or operation. | Indirect warning | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Demands that Armenia end what the statement calls a militarist policy after criticizing military cooperation involving Greece, France and India. A demand about Armenian military policy; unlike an explicit disarmament demand, this text does not specify weapons to surrender or a threatened operation. | Military-policy demand | Source · westaz.org |
Ilham Aliyev, quoted by Kamran Imanov; conference report republished by WAC | Imanov repeats Aliyev’s warning that Armenia’s ability to live comfortably within its existing territory depends on accepting Azerbaijani conditions, with reciprocal nonrecognition of territorial integrity threatened if Armenia refuses. Counted as WAC dissemination of Aliyev’s wording quoted by Kamran Imanov, not as a new statement by the WAC chair. The original presidential speech was delivered on 18 March 2023; the conference was held on 20 April and WAC published this report on 21 April. | Conditional coercion | Source · westaz.orgSource · president.azSource · copat.gov.az |
Related conflict context2 Context records
These Karabakh conflict records are preserved as context and excluded from the monthly Armenia-directed rhetoric count.
| Date and speaker / document | Recorded content | Wording category | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
WAC institutional statement | Calls for Armenian armed groups to be disarmed and the de facto Karabakh administration to be dissolved, while urging international pressure on Armenia. Issued during the September 2023 Karabakh escalation; this is a disarmament and dissolution demand in that conflict, not an announced future attack on Armenia. | Disarmament demand | Source · westaz.org |
WAC institutional statement | Reports and endorses the Azerbaijani army’s ongoing operation in Karabakh, then demands withdrawal, disarmament and dissolution of the de facto administration. Contemporary endorsement of an ongoing Karabakh operation, not a newly announced operation against Armenia; kept outside the Armenia-directed red count. | Disarmament demand | Source · westaz.org |