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AZERBAIJANI SINGER FORCED TO REMOVE ARMENIAN FRIEND FROM FACEBOOK FRIENDS' LIST
epress.am
08.02.2011
Photos of Aynishan Guliyeva (pictured, second from left, second
row), Azerbaijan's contestant in the 20th International Performers
Contest at the Slavianski Bazaar alongside Armenia's contestant Narek
Makaryan (pictured, in purple tie) resulted in a wave of discontent
by internet users.
According to Aze.az, Guliyeva was forced to remove Makaryan from
her list of Facebook friends. Guliyeva's mother, Aybaniz Gashimova,
who accompanied her daughter to the song contest in Vitebsk, tried
to justify and explain how it came to be that her daughter was in a
photo with an Armenian.
"This Armenian boy expressed his love for Azerbaijan; the organizers
were constantly putting him next to Aynishan. We are a peace-loving
people; we couldn't drive him away from us - the participants and
guests of the festival saw everything. That Aynishan was photographed
with an Armenian doesn't mean we have forgotten our martyrs. No! Our
family has experienced great sorrow, but we have shown peacefulness.
We could not push him away or be rude and thus disgrace our country,"
said Gashimova, reports Aze.az.
epress.am
08.02.2011
Photos of Aynishan Guliyeva (pictured, second from left, second
row), Azerbaijan's contestant in the 20th International Performers
Contest at the Slavianski Bazaar alongside Armenia's contestant Narek
Makaryan (pictured, in purple tie) resulted in a wave of discontent
by internet users.
According to Aze.az, Guliyeva was forced to remove Makaryan from
her list of Facebook friends. Guliyeva's mother, Aybaniz Gashimova,
who accompanied her daughter to the song contest in Vitebsk, tried
to justify and explain how it came to be that her daughter was in a
photo with an Armenian.
"This Armenian boy expressed his love for Azerbaijan; the organizers
were constantly putting him next to Aynishan. We are a peace-loving
people; we couldn't drive him away from us - the participants and
guests of the festival saw everything. That Aynishan was photographed
with an Armenian doesn't mean we have forgotten our martyrs. No! Our
family has experienced great sorrow, but we have shown peacefulness.
We could not push him away or be rude and thus disgrace our country,"
said Gashimova, reports Aze.az.