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PEOPLE WHO NEVER VISITED NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC APPEARED IN BAKU'S "BLACK LIST"
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/728410/people-who-never-visited-nagorno-karabakh-republic-appeared-in-bakus-black-list.html
16:11, 6 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 6, ARMENPRESS. The Senior Fellow for Europe and Eurasia
at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC Wayne Merry
condemned official Baku's decision to declare 335 foreigners "persona
non grata" for visiting the Nagorno Karabakh Republic "without the
permission of the Azerbaijani authorities". As reports "Armenpress"
in a conversation with "Turan" Wayne Merry stated that "this step
first of all harms the Azerbaijani authorities."
Among other things Wayne Merry underscored: "It would be better
to invite all those people to Azerbaijan and suggest them to get
acquainted with the position of the other side as well.
Notwithstanding, the current policy adopted by Baku will give opposite
result and the people included in the "black list" will never know
Azerbaijan's position, even if they want it very much. This stance
adopted by Azerbaijan is a striking example of self-isolation and
simple policy."
Wayne Merry had been working in the Department of State of the United
States and official structures for 20 years. Wayne Merry is Senior
Fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council
in Washington, DC. He is widely published and a frequent speaker on
topics relating to Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Balkans,
European security and trans-Atlantic relations. In twenty-six years
in the United States Foreign Service, he worked as a diplomat and
political analyst specializing in Soviet and post-Soviet political
issues, including six years at the American Embassy in Moscow. He
paid a visit to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic last year and call on
the international community to pay more attention on this conflict.
It's noteworthy that the list, which caused laughter of the whole
progressive mankind, contains the names of such people, who have never
visited the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, including Nicholas Wondra. "I
have never been in Karabakh, notwithstanding as far as I have been
included in the list, now I must visit Karabakh as an expert on
Caucasus," Nicholas Wondra noted in a conversation with "Turan".
The aforesaid funny list of "persona non grata" contains 14 deputies of
Russian Parliament, 5 reporters of German ZDF TV channel, president
of Berlin academy, deputies of Iranian, Slovakian, Argentinean
parliaments, famous Russian economist Victor Sheinis, Baroness Cox,
President of military academy of Denmark, Russian political scientist
Sergey Marcedonov, 14 deputies of French parliament, Italian singer
Al Bano, 8 deputies of European Parliament, reporter of Washington
Post in Moscow Will Englund, reporter of New York Times Anastasia
Taylor Wint, Phillip Kirkorov's father - Bedros Kirkorov, famous
opera singer Montserrat Caballe, a deputy of Canadian Parliament.
The list also includes 6 American doctors, 7 British deputies, a
Greek deputy, 3 deputies of Swiss Parliament, editor in chief of EU
foreign policy magazine, former EU special representative in South
Caucasus Peter Samnabi, 5 deputies of Uruguayan parliament, famous
Swiss cosmonaut Claudi Nikolia, 6 Australian deputies, a deputy of
German Bundestag and other famous people.
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/728410/people-who-never-visited-nagorno-karabakh-republic-appeared-in-bakus-black-list.html
16:11, 6 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 6, ARMENPRESS. The Senior Fellow for Europe and Eurasia
at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC Wayne Merry
condemned official Baku's decision to declare 335 foreigners "persona
non grata" for visiting the Nagorno Karabakh Republic "without the
permission of the Azerbaijani authorities". As reports "Armenpress"
in a conversation with "Turan" Wayne Merry stated that "this step
first of all harms the Azerbaijani authorities."
Among other things Wayne Merry underscored: "It would be better
to invite all those people to Azerbaijan and suggest them to get
acquainted with the position of the other side as well.
Notwithstanding, the current policy adopted by Baku will give opposite
result and the people included in the "black list" will never know
Azerbaijan's position, even if they want it very much. This stance
adopted by Azerbaijan is a striking example of self-isolation and
simple policy."
Wayne Merry had been working in the Department of State of the United
States and official structures for 20 years. Wayne Merry is Senior
Fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council
in Washington, DC. He is widely published and a frequent speaker on
topics relating to Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Balkans,
European security and trans-Atlantic relations. In twenty-six years
in the United States Foreign Service, he worked as a diplomat and
political analyst specializing in Soviet and post-Soviet political
issues, including six years at the American Embassy in Moscow. He
paid a visit to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic last year and call on
the international community to pay more attention on this conflict.
It's noteworthy that the list, which caused laughter of the whole
progressive mankind, contains the names of such people, who have never
visited the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, including Nicholas Wondra. "I
have never been in Karabakh, notwithstanding as far as I have been
included in the list, now I must visit Karabakh as an expert on
Caucasus," Nicholas Wondra noted in a conversation with "Turan".
The aforesaid funny list of "persona non grata" contains 14 deputies of
Russian Parliament, 5 reporters of German ZDF TV channel, president
of Berlin academy, deputies of Iranian, Slovakian, Argentinean
parliaments, famous Russian economist Victor Sheinis, Baroness Cox,
President of military academy of Denmark, Russian political scientist
Sergey Marcedonov, 14 deputies of French parliament, Italian singer
Al Bano, 8 deputies of European Parliament, reporter of Washington
Post in Moscow Will Englund, reporter of New York Times Anastasia
Taylor Wint, Phillip Kirkorov's father - Bedros Kirkorov, famous
opera singer Montserrat Caballe, a deputy of Canadian Parliament.
The list also includes 6 American doctors, 7 British deputies, a
Greek deputy, 3 deputies of Swiss Parliament, editor in chief of EU
foreign policy magazine, former EU special representative in South
Caucasus Peter Samnabi, 5 deputies of Uruguayan parliament, famous
Swiss cosmonaut Claudi Nikolia, 6 Australian deputies, a deputy of
German Bundestag and other famous people.