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    APA, Azerbaijan
    June 6 2013


    Azerbaijan voices protest at Spanish singer's Karabakh trip


    6 June, Baku: The Azerbaijani embassy to Spain has handed over a
    protest note to the Spanish Foreign Ministry in connection with
    Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe's visit to Azerbaijan's
    occupied territory. The Azerbaijani embassy to Spain told APA that a
    relevant note of protest was set to the Spanish Foreign Ministry
    yesterday [5 June] but has not received a reply yet.
    The embassy told APA that in May, when Caballe's concerts were
    announced in Yerevan and Karabakh, representatives of the Azerbaijani
    diplomatic mission got in touch with the singer's administrators and
    managers and familiarized them with the possible consequences of such
    a visit. For their part, Caballe's administrators assured that the
    singer would only hold a concert in Yerevan and had no plans to visit
    Karabakh.
    However, according to Armenian media, on 4 June, Caballe visited
    Nagornyy Karabakh and met the head of the separatist regime, Bako
    Sahakyan there.
    The head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry,
    Elman Abdullayev, told APA that the visit to Azerbaijan's occupied
    territory without coordination with appropriate agencies of the
    country was illegal and demonstrated disrespect to [its] territorial
    integrity and the international law. Montserrat Caballe's visit has
    had a negative impact on the peaceful efforts of the conflict
    settlement.

    [Translated from Russian]




    From: A. Papazian
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