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    Turan news agency, Azerbaijan
    March 18 2013


    Azerbaijan sends protest note to Lithuania over group with breakaway region



    The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has sent a note of protest to
    Lithuania over the latter's initiative to create a parliamentary
    friendship group with Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh region,
    Baku-based private Turan news agency reported on 19 March.

    Deputy Foreign Ministry Xalaf Xalafov received Lithuanian ambassador
    to Azerbaijan Arturas Zhurauskas on 18 March where he expressed
    Azerbaijan's concern over the issue and said that the establishment of
    ties with Azerbaijan's "occupied territory is a violation of not only
    the Azerbaijani laws but of international laws as well," Turan
    reported.

    "Azerbaijan views this [act] as a violation of its territorial
    integrity and sovereignty of the country; the support for separatism
    and disrespect for the principles of international law," Turan quoted
    the Foreign Ministry's press release as saying.

    For his turn, ambassador Arturas Zhurauskas said that the initiative
    to create a friendship group with Nagornyy Karabakh does not reflect
    the official position of the Seimas [parliament] and the government of
    Lithuania, Turan reported.

    [Translated from Russian]



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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