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AZERBAIJAN'S SHEIKH PRAYS IN YEREVAN MOSQUE
news.az
Nov 29 2011
Azerbaijan
The chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Sheikh-ul-Islam
Allahshukur Pashazade, has visited the historic mosque in Yerevan.
Pashazade led the Azerbaijani delegation in namaz at the mosque.
The Azerbaijani mosque was built in the 18th century as a place of
worship for Muslims living in Yerevan.
The deputy chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Haji Sabir
Hasanli, gave a press conference in Baku on Tuesday about the sheikh's
trip to Yerevan.
When he met Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Pashazade conveyed
to him Azerbaijan's position on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
Hasanli told the press conference.
"We think that the meetings in Yerevan were useful from the point of
view of presenting Azerbaijan's just position on the conflict not only
to the participants in the CIS Inter-Religious Council in Yerevan,
but to the president of Armenia and the Catholicos of all Armenians,"
Hasanli said.
He expressed regret that "some media" in Azerbaijan had published
inaccurate reports on the sheikh's visit.
Allahshukur Pashazade visited Yerevan to attend a meeting of the
presidium of the CIS Inter-Religious Council, of which he is a
co-chairman.
He held a meeting with Catholicos Garegin II and Russian Patriarch
Kirill, during which the three spiritual leaders called for the
withdrawal of snipers from the contact line separating Armenian and
Azerbaijani troops.
Sabir Hasanli said that one of the next meetings between Pashazade
and Garegin II would be along the front line.
They reached agreement on this during the visit, but no date for the
meeting has been fixed yet.
From: A. Papazian
news.az
Nov 29 2011
Azerbaijan
The chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Sheikh-ul-Islam
Allahshukur Pashazade, has visited the historic mosque in Yerevan.
Pashazade led the Azerbaijani delegation in namaz at the mosque.
The Azerbaijani mosque was built in the 18th century as a place of
worship for Muslims living in Yerevan.
The deputy chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department, Haji Sabir
Hasanli, gave a press conference in Baku on Tuesday about the sheikh's
trip to Yerevan.
When he met Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Pashazade conveyed
to him Azerbaijan's position on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
Hasanli told the press conference.
"We think that the meetings in Yerevan were useful from the point of
view of presenting Azerbaijan's just position on the conflict not only
to the participants in the CIS Inter-Religious Council in Yerevan,
but to the president of Armenia and the Catholicos of all Armenians,"
Hasanli said.
He expressed regret that "some media" in Azerbaijan had published
inaccurate reports on the sheikh's visit.
Allahshukur Pashazade visited Yerevan to attend a meeting of the
presidium of the CIS Inter-Religious Council, of which he is a
co-chairman.
He held a meeting with Catholicos Garegin II and Russian Patriarch
Kirill, during which the three spiritual leaders called for the
withdrawal of snipers from the contact line separating Armenian and
Azerbaijani troops.
Sabir Hasanli said that one of the next meetings between Pashazade
and Garegin II would be along the front line.
They reached agreement on this during the visit, but no date for the
meeting has been fixed yet.
From: A. Papazian