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RUSSIA HAS MADE ANOTHER STEP TO SEVER RELATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 27 2013
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev
handed over yesterday a note of protest to the Russian ambassador
in Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin in connection with publication of
article of V. Dubnov "For 25 years, Nagorno Karabakh learned to be
unrecognized" on 25 February by state information agency RIA Novosti.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reports that
publication of this "story" bore the nature of provocation before
the 21th anniversary of the genocide of Azerbaijanis by Armenians
in Karabakh town of Khojaly. The note of protest openly states that
such publications of the state agency question Russia's role as
co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the peaceful settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and contradict the
agreement on friendship and cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan
from 3 July 1997.
Last night, the Russian Embassy tried to justify the situation with
the fact that the article has been already removed from RIA-Novosti
web-resource and that the article expresses the personal views of
the author which does not reflect the views of the state agency,
and so on and so forth.
It should be noted that this article is in line with a significant
deterioration in bilateral relations in recent years. To the credit
of Azerbaijan, it did not even try to prosecute actions of notorious
RIA-Novosti's subsidiary operating in the country - the democratic
principles are holy to the Azerbaijani side.
Besides, the provocative article was published on the day of XVI
meeting of the Council of Heads of State News Agencies of the CIS. As
they say, Byzantine manners remain Byzantine in Africa as well.
http://abc.az/eng/news/main/71969.html
From: Baghdasarian
Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 27 2013
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev
handed over yesterday a note of protest to the Russian ambassador
in Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin in connection with publication of
article of V. Dubnov "For 25 years, Nagorno Karabakh learned to be
unrecognized" on 25 February by state information agency RIA Novosti.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reports that
publication of this "story" bore the nature of provocation before
the 21th anniversary of the genocide of Azerbaijanis by Armenians
in Karabakh town of Khojaly. The note of protest openly states that
such publications of the state agency question Russia's role as
co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the peaceful settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and contradict the
agreement on friendship and cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan
from 3 July 1997.
Last night, the Russian Embassy tried to justify the situation with
the fact that the article has been already removed from RIA-Novosti
web-resource and that the article expresses the personal views of
the author which does not reflect the views of the state agency,
and so on and so forth.
It should be noted that this article is in line with a significant
deterioration in bilateral relations in recent years. To the credit
of Azerbaijan, it did not even try to prosecute actions of notorious
RIA-Novosti's subsidiary operating in the country - the democratic
principles are holy to the Azerbaijani side.
Besides, the provocative article was published on the day of XVI
meeting of the Council of Heads of State News Agencies of the CIS. As
they say, Byzantine manners remain Byzantine in Africa as well.
http://abc.az/eng/news/main/71969.html
From: Baghdasarian