2022 · Organizational history
Earlier publications, organizational changes and state support, arranged by year.
Independently documented marks an externally corroborated event. Contemporary record marks a period document, publication, interview or attributed report; it does not confirm every claim or announced outcome. Each entry identifies the named body. Earlier association records do not establish WAC’s legal continuity.
2022
Event date
Aliyev visits the headquarters
Independently documentedAliyev visited the organization’s headquarters in Baku and addressed a meeting on 24 December 2022.
During the speech, Aliyev described provision of the building and called for conferences, diaspora cooperation and digital publications. These are attributed statements, not independently verified institutional history.
Eurasianet independently reports the headquarters visit and 24 December speech. Official photographs and video provide the visual record.
Confirmed: the physical headquarters visit and speech on 24 December 2022. This does not confirm the organization’s claimed founding, registration, legal continuity or territorial assertions.
Publication date
New premises and archive plans described
Contemporary recordMisir Mardanov describes a new building and councils, and announces an archive, library and museum.
Named body: Western Azerbaijan Community
Participant interview; no transfer deed or evidence that planned facilities opened. Participant interview; no transfer deed or evidence that planned facilities opened.
Participant interview; no transfer deed or evidence that planned facilities opened.
Publication date
Chair explains the expanded campaign
Contemporary recordIn Kaspi, Alekberli links reorganization to the post-2020 situation and a wider historical, territorial and legal campaign.
Named body: “Western Azerbaijan Community”
He describes a legal unit and demands that Armenia shrink to 9,000 km². These are his claims and demands.
A direct interview, not registration evidence; published 13 August, before the 14 August republication.
The interview records the chair’s explanation of the renamed organization’s campaign. Historical, demographic and legal assertions inside it are not independently confirmed by publication of the interview.
Reported date
Registration of renamed body reported
Not confirmedA later institutional history gives 12 August 2022 as the Ministry of Justice registration date after renaming.
No registry extract, certificate or original amended charter has been obtained.
The specific founding or registration milestone is not established by the available original records. This is an evidence limit, not a finding that the event did not happen.
Reported date
Current name and new charter
Contemporary recordA same-day announcement describes the new name, charter and elections to the board, supervisory and audit bodies.
Named body: “Western Azerbaijan Community”
Report.az attributes the information to the organization. Original assembly minutes and registration certificate remain unavailable. A 5 August APA interview records the chair explaining the new name and expanded agenda. It supports public use of the name, not the legal effective date.
A dated announcement describes the new name, charter and elected bodies; later presidential coverage also reports the change. This supports the public reorganization announcement, not authentication of the registration documents. A 5 August APA interview records the chair explaining the new name and expanded agenda. It supports public use of the name, not the legal effective date.
Reported date
Joint meeting reported under both names
Contemporary recordA signed joint press-service report describes a four-item agenda and names WAC officeholders.
Named body: Azerbaijan Refugees Society and Western Azerbaijan Community
Dîplomat no. 12 (476), printed issue 25–31 March 2022, p. 3, attributes the report to the joint AQC/QAİ press service. It names 27 March as the meeting date, four agenda items and WAC officers. The PDF layout timestamp, 3 April, is not the event date. This documents the report and dual-name usage, not registration or legal continuity.
An attributed meeting report, not independent observation or legal registration.
Reported date
Cooperation protocol with İSBAM reported
Contemporary recordA contemporary report names Alekberli and Samir Adigozelli as signatories to a cooperation protocol at the society's headquarters.
Named body: Society and WAC names used together in the report
Original protocol not obtained. The report uses both society and WAC names before August's renaming, without establishing separate legal status.
The report names two signatories and a cooperation protocol, using the society and WAC names together. It documents the signing account, not independent examination of the instrument or proof of two legal entities.