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NKR PERMANENT MISSION IN GERMANY: WE REJECTED "DIALOGUE" WITH AZERBAIJANIS BECAUSE OF FORMAT
Panorama
Dec 1 2011
Armenia
Panorama.am has contacted NKR Permanent Representative to Germany
after the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities refused to attend a provocative
propaganda "meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities"
organized by the Azerbaijani authorities in Berlin on November 28. NKR
Permanent Mission said that they received an invitation, or rather
a request to participate in the "dialogue", but they turned it down
because of its format.
"The NKR Permanent Mission in Germany explained its refusal, saying
that the notion of "Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh" is equal
to the notion of "German community of Germany." In this case, it is
inappropriate to plan or think of dialogue without acceptance and
respect for the right of a nation to self-determination. Instead of a
"dialogue," we proposed that our German colleagues use neutral Berlin
to hold hearings for Azerbaijan to try to substantiate its refusal
to withdraw snipers from the line of contact," said Grigoryan.
We will remind that Azerbaijani media spread misinformation that
allegedly at first representatives of NKR agreed to attend the event
but then refused to.
"We have never given consent. Our whole correspondence was in a written
form, and it is not difficult to prove that the Azerbaijani media
are lying," said NKR Permanent Representative to Germany Harutyun
Grigoryan.
As to the organizers of this "dialogue," one of them is the Caspian
Region Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the next is the
Azerbaijani-German Forum, the deputy head of which is the Azerbaijani
Ambassador to Germany, and the third is the Caucasian - European
Cultural and Scientific Society "EuroCaucAsia," where Ramzin Mirzayev
takes a top post. So it's no use talking about German organizers of
this event.
Panorama
Dec 1 2011
Armenia
Panorama.am has contacted NKR Permanent Representative to Germany
after the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities refused to attend a provocative
propaganda "meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities"
organized by the Azerbaijani authorities in Berlin on November 28. NKR
Permanent Mission said that they received an invitation, or rather
a request to participate in the "dialogue", but they turned it down
because of its format.
"The NKR Permanent Mission in Germany explained its refusal, saying
that the notion of "Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh" is equal
to the notion of "German community of Germany." In this case, it is
inappropriate to plan or think of dialogue without acceptance and
respect for the right of a nation to self-determination. Instead of a
"dialogue," we proposed that our German colleagues use neutral Berlin
to hold hearings for Azerbaijan to try to substantiate its refusal
to withdraw snipers from the line of contact," said Grigoryan.
We will remind that Azerbaijani media spread misinformation that
allegedly at first representatives of NKR agreed to attend the event
but then refused to.
"We have never given consent. Our whole correspondence was in a written
form, and it is not difficult to prove that the Azerbaijani media
are lying," said NKR Permanent Representative to Germany Harutyun
Grigoryan.
As to the organizers of this "dialogue," one of them is the Caspian
Region Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the next is the
Azerbaijani-German Forum, the deputy head of which is the Azerbaijani
Ambassador to Germany, and the third is the Caucasian - European
Cultural and Scientific Society "EuroCaucAsia," where Ramzin Mirzayev
takes a top post. So it's no use talking about German organizers of
this event.