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  • BAKU: Official: Foreigners' Unauthorized Visits To Nagorno-Karabakh

    OFFICIAL: FOREIGNERS' UNAUTHORIZED VISITS TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH AIMED AT PR

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Aug 30 2013

    30 August 2013, 15:24 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Foreign nationals who visit the Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani
    territories without permission of Azerbaijan do so for their own PR,
    a senior official said on August 30.

    Elnur Aslanov, head of the Presidential Administration's Political
    Analysis and Information Provision Department, said that "looking
    at the list of these people, it is clear that these are low and
    uncivilized people who organize various scandals for the purpose of
    their own PR".

    According to Aslanov, their visits do not contribute to the recognition
    of Nagorno-Karabakh, referring to an Azerbaijani region occupied
    by Armenia along with seven adjacent regions since a war in the
    early 1990s.

    "These people visit the occupied lands of Azerbaijan to meet their
    subjective and mercantile interests. We are not concerned over this.

    Our concern is that countries do not impose sanctions on such
    citizens," he said.

    At the invitation of Armenian-Russian Cooperation, a Moscow-based
    organization, a number of Russian journalists have paid a visit to
    Armenia and the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region. The group which
    illegally visited the occupied territories of Azerbaijan included
    TV host Anna Chapman, member of the Public Chamber of Russia Denis
    Dvornikov, public figure, human rights activist Sergei Karnaukhov,
    correspondent of the Rossiyskiy Reporter (Russian Reporter) magazine
    and correspondent of DairyNews news agency Alexandra Ryzhkova,
    and others.

    Azerbaijan has repeatedly warned foreign officials and diplomats
    over visits to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia,
    saying this contradicts international law. The Foreign Ministry
    has stated that such visits, paid without prior notification of the
    relevant authorities of Azerbaijan, are illegal and damaging to the
    settlement process on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev recently said
    that persons who visited Nagorno-Karabakh will be considered persona
    non grata in Azerbaijan. Abdullayev said that since visits to the
    occupied territories are illegal, the visit of the said persons is
    a violation of the law "On State Border" of Azerbaijan.

    Recently, the Foreign Ministry published a list of those declared
    persona non grata over illegal visits to the Armenian-occupied
    territories, which included 335 people.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
    territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since the 1990s war that
    displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have
    occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized
    territory. The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

    Peace talks aimed at resolving the long-standing conflict, mediated by
    Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway
    on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs
    and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely
    fruitless so far.

    http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/58789.html

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