Armenian MPs miss Baku-hosted NATO seminar on purpose – Azeri official

ANS TV, Baku
25 Nov 04

Presenter Armenian MPs have not joined the Rose-Roth seminar of NATO’s
Parliamentary Assembly .

Namiq Aliyev, captioned as the head of the Milli Maclis’s international
relations department, shown speaking to reporters As you know, two
Armenian MPs were expected to join the seminar. However, about 30
minutes before their flight from Moscow to Baku, they phoned the NATO
headquarters and said that they were not coming.

Correspondent What were the reasons for their refusal to come?

Aliyev I do not have information about this. But one can judge that
they did not come here because they were afraid of the topics the
seminar was going to discuss. They have nothing to say. They would
be asked about the Karabakh problem. So, they were afraid of this
and chose not to come.

We have talked to their representative. They said that they were
discrediting themselves. This is what they said, what a NATO
representative said. It was just a game. They wanted us to deny
them entry. They wanted to deal a blow to us in this way. But they
themselves got the blow in the end.