Foreign Minister sends protest note to Russia

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Sept 13 2004

Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has sent a note of protest to
Russia with regard to participation of Russian arts figures in
the event arranged in the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh Republic,
Azerbaijan’s land under Armenian occupation.

Mammadyarov presented the note of protest at a reception party
organized on the occasion of completion of Russian Ambassador to
Azerbaijan Nikolay Ryabov’s diplomatic mission in the country.*