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  • Prague: Svoboda asks Mammadyarov for help in Nazarov case

    Czech News Agency
    March 2, 2005

    SVOBODA ASKS MAMMADYAROV FOR HELP IN NAZAROV CASE

    PRAGUE, March 2 (CTK) - Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda today asked
    his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov to help settle the case
    of Professor Sadai Nazarov, Richard Krpac from the Foreign Ministry
    press department told CTK today.

    Nazarov, originally from Azerbeijan, has asylum in the Czech Republic
    and is now under Czech protection, but still he cannot return from
    Azerbaijan.

    Nazarov was arrested on January 20 when he visited his homeland where
    he has been accused of treason.

    "Azerbaijani authorities have accused him of six serious crimes,
    which the Azerbaijani penal code punishes with life imprisonment,"
    Nazarov's son Elshan Nazarov told CTK on February 15.

    Czech diplomacy is seeking Nazarov's return to the Czech Republic,
    the Czech Foreign Ministry said earlier.

    Nazarov, 58, travelled to Azerbaijan though Czech authorities did not
    recommend it to him. He wanted to see his ill father, and besides he
    allegedly supposed that the situation in the country had improved.

    He was an adviser to the former Azerbaijani premier Suret Huseynov.
    In 1994, he left his homeland as the regime of president Ilham Aliyev
    persecuted him. Three years later he was granted asylum in the Czech
    Republic.

    "Svoboda asked for help, taking into account his political asylum and
    serious health problems," Krpac said.

    Svoboda and Mammadyarov met at the request of the Czech Republic.
    They discussed bilateral questions and deepening of the two
    countries' relations.

    Mammadyarov is on an unofficial visit to the Czech Republic.

    His trip is mainly devised to attend the summit of the "Minsk Group,"
    which is now being held in Prague. It consists of the USA, Russia and
    France. With the mandate of the Organisation for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe (OBSE), it is trying to resolve the problem of
    Nagorny Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.

    Nagorny Karabakh, predominantly inhabited by Armenians, is still
    internationally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan and Armenia, too,
    does not see it as its part. While Azerbaijan seeks its return,
    Armenia demands its independence.
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