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ARMENIA USES TOURISM FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 4 2014
4 November 2014, 18:59 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Armenia is taking advantage of tourism for certain political purposes.
This is unacceptable and shows once again that Armenia is pursuing
the policy of annexation of Azerbaijan's occupied territories,
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev said.
He made the statements on November 4 in reaction to recent reports
in Armenian media claiming that a stand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
separatist regime is operating as part of Armenian pavilion at the
World Travel Market exhibition in London.
However, the event's organizer Reed Exhibitions Company said on
November 3 that the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh won't be
represented at World Travel Market exhibition. The message came in
reply to a letter from Azerbaijani embassy in UK.
Hajiyev told Trend Agency that Armenia, under various pretexts,
tries to justify its failure by trying to present the separatist
Nagorno-Karabakh regime and the so-called Karabakh Tourism Development
Agency with a separate stand at international tourism exhibitions.
He also added that the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh regime
created in Azerbaijan's occupied territories at the international
tourism exhibition in Italy's Rimini was prevented.
Hajiyev said by resorting to another provocative action and creating
a stand in the pavilion of Tourism Department of Armenia's Economy
Ministry, Armenian side tries to present this as presentation of
tourism sphere of the Nagorno-Karabakh regime.
Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions in
a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a
result of the war.
The large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire
in 1994 but Armenia continued its occupation in defiance of four UN
Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional
withdrawal from the occupied lands.
Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. have produced no
results so far.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 4 2014
4 November 2014, 18:59 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Armenia is taking advantage of tourism for certain political purposes.
This is unacceptable and shows once again that Armenia is pursuing
the policy of annexation of Azerbaijan's occupied territories,
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev said.
He made the statements on November 4 in reaction to recent reports
in Armenian media claiming that a stand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
separatist regime is operating as part of Armenian pavilion at the
World Travel Market exhibition in London.
However, the event's organizer Reed Exhibitions Company said on
November 3 that the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh won't be
represented at World Travel Market exhibition. The message came in
reply to a letter from Azerbaijani embassy in UK.
Hajiyev told Trend Agency that Armenia, under various pretexts,
tries to justify its failure by trying to present the separatist
Nagorno-Karabakh regime and the so-called Karabakh Tourism Development
Agency with a separate stand at international tourism exhibitions.
He also added that the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh regime
created in Azerbaijan's occupied territories at the international
tourism exhibition in Italy's Rimini was prevented.
Hajiyev said by resorting to another provocative action and creating
a stand in the pavilion of Tourism Department of Armenia's Economy
Ministry, Armenian side tries to present this as presentation of
tourism sphere of the Nagorno-Karabakh regime.
Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions in
a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a
result of the war.
The large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire
in 1994 but Armenia continued its occupation in defiance of four UN
Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional
withdrawal from the occupied lands.
Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. have produced no
results so far.