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    US State Department "officially registers" Karabakh mission - Azeri paper

    Ekspress, Baku
    30 Jul 04

    Excerpt from report by Hasan Agacan in Azerbaijani newspaper Ekspress
    on 30 July headlined "Separatists' embassy' is granting visas" and
    subheaded " The diplomatic mission' of Nagornyy Karabakh's separatist
    regime in Washington has been officially registered at the US State
    Department"

    The "embassy" of Nagornyy Karabakh's separatist regime in the USA
    yesterday 29 July announced the beginning of "a normal working
    regime". The new "embassy", which has been located in two rooms of the
    Armenian embassy in the USA until recently, has acquired a new
    building for itself in Washington.

    Passage omitted: details of report from the Armenian press

    We obtained another report yesterday that "the embassy of Nagornyy
    Karabakh" had been officially registered at the US State Department as
    a "diplomatic representative office". Vardan Barsegyan is the head of
    this "embassy-representative office", Sarkis Kotanchyan and Armen
    Kanayan are its main employees.

    The separatists' representative office in Washington also started
    granting "visas" to the US citizens who want to visit Nagornyy
    Karabakh. For example, the Americans can get a visa for seven or 21
    days. The seven-day visa costs 25 dollars, while the 21-day visa costs
    35-45 dollars "depending on terms". In addition, there is a two-dollar
    "consular fee".

    US citizens, who want to get "a Nagornyy Karabakh visa", are advised
    to bring a photograph and a foreign passport to Xankandi's Stepanakert
    "embassy" in Washington.

    Nagornyy Karabakh's "Foreign Ministry" has issued a statement on rules
    for giving the "visas". Citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia,
    Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,
    representatives of the international organizations operating in
    Xankandi, individuals "who have received invitations from Nagornyy
    Karabakh's president, Speaker, prime minister or foreign minister" as
    well as teenagers can get "the Nagornyy Karabakh visa" free of charge.
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