PEOPLE HAVING ARMENIAN RELATIVES DISMISSED IN BAKU

Pan Armenian News
15.06.2005 03:19

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ By order of Minister Eldar Makhmudov several
employees of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security were
dismissed. According to a source, the dismissal is conditioned by
the Armenian nationality of one of the parents or close relatives
of these people. When commenting on the information, head of the
department for public relations of the Ministry of National Security
Arif Babayev said, “We live in Azerbaijan, that is why we can not
have people of Armenian origin on service.” To note, such kind of
cleansing has been carried out for the first time in the MNS. Former
Minister Namik Abbasov admitted in one of his interviews that people
of Armenian origin work in the system but he is not going to dismiss
them, 525 Azeri newspaper reported.