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    AZERBAIJAN'S SHEIKH PRAYS IN YEREVAN MOSQUE

    news.az
    Nov 29 2011
    Azerbaijan

    The chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Sheikh-ul-Islam
    Allahshukur Pashazade, has visited the historic mosque in Yerevan.

    Pashazade led the Azerbaijani delegation in namaz at the mosque.

    The Azerbaijani mosque was built in the 18th century as a place of
    worship for Muslims living in Yerevan.

    The deputy chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Haji Sabir
    Hasanli, gave a press conference in Baku on Tuesday about the sheikh's
    trip to Yerevan.

    When he met Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Pashazade conveyed
    to him Azerbaijan's position on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
    Hasanli told the press conference.

    "We think that the meetings in Yerevan were useful from the point of
    view of presenting Azerbaijan's just position on the conflict not only
    to the participants in the CIS Inter-Religious Council in Yerevan,
    but to the president of Armenia and the Catholicos of all Armenians,"
    Hasanli said.

    He expressed regret that "some media" in Azerbaijan had published
    inaccurate reports on the sheikh's visit.

    Allahshukur Pashazade visited Yerevan to attend a meeting of the
    presidium of the CIS Inter-Religious Council, of which he is a
    co-chairman.

    He held a meeting with Catholicos Garegin II and Russian Patriarch
    Kirill, during which the three spiritual leaders called for the
    withdrawal of snipers from the contact line separating Armenian and
    Azerbaijani troops.

    Sabir Hasanli said that one of the next meetings between Pashazade
    and Garegin II would be along the front line.

    They reached agreement on this during the visit, but no date for the
    meeting has been fixed yet.




    From: A. Papazian
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