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    AZERI EMBASSY FILES COMPLAINT OVER AGREEMENT BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES IN RUSSIA, KARABAKH

    Asbarez
    Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
    BAKU

    Azerbaijan~Rs embassy in Moscow has called on the Russian Foreign
    Ministry to investigate a cooperation agreement between a university in
    southern Russia and one in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a spokesman
    for Azerbaijan~Rs Foreign Ministry was quoted by the Azeri Press
    Agency as saying Tuesday.

    According to Russian media reports, the two universities are the
    Humanitarian and Social Sciences Institute at the Southern Federal
    University and the Mesrop Mashtots University in the Karabakh capital
    of Stepanakert.

    Azerbaijan does not recognize the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic and considers it a separatist government on ~Soccupied~T Azeri
    territory. ~SAny action in the territories of Azerbaijan, occupied by
    Armenians, without Azerbaijan~Rs permission is considered illegal,~T
    spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told the APA.

    The Dean of the south Russian university, Yuriy Volkov, played down
    the cooperation agreement, saying that it had been signed during an
    international conference in Rostov.

    ~SWe invited Baku State University and Tbilisi University to
    the conference. Two people came from Stepanakert. They learned
    our education program and asked us for text books and we agreed to
    exchange them,~T he explained. ~SThis is not political. An education
    center cannot be involved in politics.~T

    ~SProfessors asked us for text books and we agreed to send
    them. That~Rs all there is to the document we signed,~T he said,
    adding that the agreement did not require approval from the Russian
    Ministry of Education and Science.




    From: A. Papazian
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