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    AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY IN LITHUANIA ENRAGED OVER PARLT GROUP FOR TIES WITH NAGORNO KARABAKH

    Baltic News Service / - BNS
    February 27, 2013 Wednesday 10:22 AM EET

    VILNIUS, Feb 27, BNS - The Azerbaijani community in Lithuania issued a
    communique on Wednesday, expressing indignation over the establishment
    of a parliamentary group of friendship with the Republic of Nagorno
    Karabakh that has not yet been recognized.

    The Azerbaijani community says that the conference Lithuania and
    Armenia - A Step to Close Past, which was intended to celebrate 25-year
    anniversaries of democratic movements in both states, in fact "turned
    out to be a manifestation of solidarity with the so-called Republic
    of Nagorno Karabakh."

    "Under such circumstances, the association Lithuania-Azerbaijan
    and the Azerbaijani Community in Lithuania views as unprecedented
    and intolerable the conditions allowed during the conference for
    an official speech by the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh's 'foreign
    minister' and establishment of the Seimas support group for the
    Republic of Nagorno Karabakh," reads the communique signed by chairman
    of the Azerbaijani Community in Lithuania, Mahir Gamzayev, and
    president of the association Lithuania-Azerbaijan, Imantas Melianas.

    "This does not only discredit your parliament - it can have a sore
    effect upon political, economic, cultural and other types of Lithuanian
    relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey as one of the most important
    Lithuanian allies in NATO. Furthermore, they clearly run counter to the
    principles of the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership policies
    and complicate Lithuania's role in the process," reads the communique.

    Meanwhile, initiator of the group, Liberal MP Dalia Kuodyte, said
    that the group was not established to support Nagorno Karabakh's
    independence but friendship with the region, adding that there were
    no contradictions to the official foreign policies of Lithuania.

    In the last decade of the 20th century, Azerbaijan and Armenia were
    engaged in a long brutal war for the disputed region of Nagorno
    Karabakh.

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