Azeri official urges foreign companies to leave Karabakh

ANS TV, Baku
3 Aug 05

[Presenter] The activities of any country’s companies in Nagornyy
Karabakh are illegal because they are directed against Azerbaijan’s
sovereignty and territorial integrity. At the same time, the measures
the Azerbaijani authorities are and will be taking against such
companies are based on international legal norms, Deputy Foreign
Minister Xalaf Xalafov has said.

[Xalafov, shown speaking to camera] The activities of any country’s
companies in Nagornyy Karabakh are illegal because they violate
Azerbaijan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and Azerbaijani laws.
Therefore, such companies have to understand that their activity is
illegal and that the measures the Azerbaijani side is and will be
taking are in full compliance with international legal norms.

This means that responsibility for any potential consequences of their
operations in Nagornyy Karabakh rests solely with these companies. And
these companies have to realize their responsibility and give a due
assessment to what they are doing. They have to end such activities.