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Azerbaijan to blacklist famous soprano Montserrat Caballe?
May 22, 2013 - 14:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A belief grows stronger every day that Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry and various institutions are mainly busy surfing the
web for any information on Armenia and Karabakh and staring
`examination' once they find what they were looking for.
The recent `examination' concerns a world-famed sopranoMontserrat
Caballe who'll perform and give master classes in Yerevan on June 9.
As APA news agency reported quoting Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
spokesman Elman Abdullayev, the Foreign Ministry is examining the
information regarding the upcoming concert of opera singer Montserrat
Caballé in `Azerbaijan's occupied territories.'
Whether Caballe will be singing in Stepanakert is, strangely enough,
the question of minor importance for Baku. One can't help but wonder:
does the great singer know of the imminent threat of Azeri `black
list' and defamation by Aliyev-controlled media?
What would happen if it was not a world-famed star but a Foreign
Minister of any country who travelled to Stepanakert? Would the step
lead to severed diplomatic ties and announcing of the politician as a
persona non grata? Incidentally, Azeri `black list' includes over a
hundred of diplomats, scientists, as well as European, Russia,
American and Canadian diplomats, which means that the singer will find
herself in quite a respectable company.
Karine Ter-Sahakian / PanARMENIAN News
May 22, 2013 - 14:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A belief grows stronger every day that Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry and various institutions are mainly busy surfing the
web for any information on Armenia and Karabakh and staring
`examination' once they find what they were looking for.
The recent `examination' concerns a world-famed sopranoMontserrat
Caballe who'll perform and give master classes in Yerevan on June 9.
As APA news agency reported quoting Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
spokesman Elman Abdullayev, the Foreign Ministry is examining the
information regarding the upcoming concert of opera singer Montserrat
Caballé in `Azerbaijan's occupied territories.'
Whether Caballe will be singing in Stepanakert is, strangely enough,
the question of minor importance for Baku. One can't help but wonder:
does the great singer know of the imminent threat of Azeri `black
list' and defamation by Aliyev-controlled media?
What would happen if it was not a world-famed star but a Foreign
Minister of any country who travelled to Stepanakert? Would the step
lead to severed diplomatic ties and announcing of the politician as a
persona non grata? Incidentally, Azeri `black list' includes over a
hundred of diplomats, scientists, as well as European, Russia,
American and Canadian diplomats, which means that the singer will find
herself in quite a respectable company.
Karine Ter-Sahakian / PanARMENIAN News