U.S. Does Not Support Investments in Karabakh, Ambassador Says

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
May 27 2004

Baku Today 27/05/2004 12:35

U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, Reno Harnish, on Wednesday said his
government does not support investments in Azerbaijan’s occupied
Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) region and that there are no U.S. companies
operating in the self-proclaimed republic, Turan reported.

While meeting students at Baku State University, Harnish denied
accusations that a U.S. company called Telekom-2 is operating in NK.

“Such a company does not exist at all,” Turan quoted the ambassador
Harnish as saying.

Members of the Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday raised the issue
on alleged U.S. investments in NK. Zahid Oruc, an MP from the
pro-government Motherland party, called upon the parliament to appeal
U.S. administration and voice dissatisfaction over reports of U.S.
companies’ operating in the occupied territory of Azerbaijan.