AZERBAIJAN PROTESTS AT RUSSIAN CONCERT ON KARABAKH INDEPENDENCE DAY

ANS TV, Baku
11 Sep 04

Quoting the Foreign Ministry press service, the Trend news agency
has reported that Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
has given a note of protest to the outgoing Russian ambassador to
Azerbaijan, Nikolay Ryabov, complaining about the participation
of Russian musicians in the festivities in the occupied Nagornyy
Karabakh territory.

Meeting the ambassador at the end of his diplomatic mission to
Azerbaijan, the minister expressed his regret about this case.

To recap, Russia’s well-known musicians took part in the festivities
to mark the so-called independence of Nagornyy Karabakh.