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FRENCH "THALES" COMPANY APOLOGIZES TO AZERBAIJAN FOR SELLING EQUIPMENT TO KHANKENDI AIRPORT
APA
Aug 7 2012
Azerbaijan
Baku. Parvin Abbasov-APA. "The branch of French "THALES" company sold
navigation equipment to Khankendi airport. We met with vice-president
of the company due to this issue this year.
They apologized and said that they were deceived by Armenians" said
the director of State Civil Aviation Administration Arif Mammadov in
his interview, APA reports.
He said that he wasn't satisfied with argument of French side and sent
an appeal to the president of International Civil Aviation Company:
"It's stressed that, if France doesn't know where it sends their
equipment, this equipment may fall into terrorists' hands and can be
used against security and stability. We put relevant steps with the
help of this appeal to make this company to make a decision within
international law norms. By the way, the solution of this issue in
accordance with international law norms is stressed in the second
part of the letter. We received a respond letter from the president
of ICAO on July 23. Company's director confirmed our position in the
letter. I wrote in the letter that I hope that the rights of Azerbaijan
can not be violated by any state in the world. The company's director
wrote that he shared my opinion. The letter says that if the rules
of air space are violated, Azerbaijan can force the aircraft to land
in any other airport. But it was also mentioned in the letter that
in case of emergency landing, we must try not to damage peaceful
and civil planes. Of course, in order to identify whether there are
civil people in the plane or not, we must force it to landing. The
state has the right to decide by itself what kind of measure to take
in relevant situation. Director of ICAO also informed in the letter
that the representatives of French company will stop the cooperation
dealing with the issue of Khojaly airport and Armenia will be informed
about the Azerbaijan's concerns".
From: A. Papazian
APA
Aug 7 2012
Azerbaijan
Baku. Parvin Abbasov-APA. "The branch of French "THALES" company sold
navigation equipment to Khankendi airport. We met with vice-president
of the company due to this issue this year.
They apologized and said that they were deceived by Armenians" said
the director of State Civil Aviation Administration Arif Mammadov in
his interview, APA reports.
He said that he wasn't satisfied with argument of French side and sent
an appeal to the president of International Civil Aviation Company:
"It's stressed that, if France doesn't know where it sends their
equipment, this equipment may fall into terrorists' hands and can be
used against security and stability. We put relevant steps with the
help of this appeal to make this company to make a decision within
international law norms. By the way, the solution of this issue in
accordance with international law norms is stressed in the second
part of the letter. We received a respond letter from the president
of ICAO on July 23. Company's director confirmed our position in the
letter. I wrote in the letter that I hope that the rights of Azerbaijan
can not be violated by any state in the world. The company's director
wrote that he shared my opinion. The letter says that if the rules
of air space are violated, Azerbaijan can force the aircraft to land
in any other airport. But it was also mentioned in the letter that
in case of emergency landing, we must try not to damage peaceful
and civil planes. Of course, in order to identify whether there are
civil people in the plane or not, we must force it to landing. The
state has the right to decide by itself what kind of measure to take
in relevant situation. Director of ICAO also informed in the letter
that the representatives of French company will stop the cooperation
dealing with the issue of Khojaly airport and Armenia will be informed
about the Azerbaijan's concerns".
From: A. Papazian