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NESTLE ISSUED A FORMAL APOLOGY TO AZERBAIJAN
Trend News Agency
May 4 2008
Azerbaijan
The Swiss-based multinational food company, Nestle, has apologised
to Azerbaijan after a gift attached to a breakfast cereal backfired,
BBC reported.
The CD-ROM featured information about countries around the world but
the data on Azerbaijan caused outrage there.
It said that Azerbaijan had started a war against neighbouring Armenia
and that the hotly disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh belonged
to Armenia.
Nestle has withdrawn the cereal and promised to seize the offending
CDs.
Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the early 1990s over
Nagorno-Karabakh killed an estimated 30,000 people.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees were created on both sides.
And despite a peace deal in 1994, the situation remains tense and
volatile.
Nestle inadvertently stumbled into a minefield.
The Azeri government vowed to take action, and there has been
widespread talk of a public boycott.
Nestle has now issued a formal apology but some Azeris are still
not happy.
They accuse Nestle of playing Armenia's hand, and are demanding more
than just an apology to chew on.
Trend News Agency
May 4 2008
Azerbaijan
The Swiss-based multinational food company, Nestle, has apologised
to Azerbaijan after a gift attached to a breakfast cereal backfired,
BBC reported.
The CD-ROM featured information about countries around the world but
the data on Azerbaijan caused outrage there.
It said that Azerbaijan had started a war against neighbouring Armenia
and that the hotly disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh belonged
to Armenia.
Nestle has withdrawn the cereal and promised to seize the offending
CDs.
Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the early 1990s over
Nagorno-Karabakh killed an estimated 30,000 people.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees were created on both sides.
And despite a peace deal in 1994, the situation remains tense and
volatile.
Nestle inadvertently stumbled into a minefield.
The Azeri government vowed to take action, and there has been
widespread talk of a public boycott.
Nestle has now issued a formal apology but some Azeris are still
not happy.
They accuse Nestle of playing Armenia's hand, and are demanding more
than just an apology to chew on.