US embassy ascribes Azeri land to Armenia – TV

ANS TV, Baku
13 Sep 05

[Presenter] Not only the occupied Azerbaijani territories, but also
Naxcivan [Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic] is described as Armenian
territory in the official website of the US embassy in Yerevan. It is
surprising and also regretful that such information appears in a
webpage owned by the USA, a country which recognizes Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity and always condemns aggression and separatism,
and that the US diplomatic corps turns a blind eye to this.

[Correspondent over video of the website] Not only the occupied
Azerbaijani territories, but also Naxcivan is described as Armenian
territory in the official website of the US embassy in Yerevan. A
webpage to which the US embassy website links says that Karabakh and
Naxcivan are historical Armenian territories. The webpage distorts
Naxcivan’s placenames, Armenizing village and town names. We perhaps
could ignore this as we often see Armenia talking such rubbish. But it
causes surprise that this information has been placed in the webpage
owned by the USA, a country which recognizes Azerbaijan’s territorial
integrity and always condemns aggression and separatism, and the US
diplomatic corps turns a blind eye to this.

The head of the press and information department of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry, Tahir Tagizada, has told ANS this is
unacceptable. Tagizada said that this run counter to the United
States’ position as an OSCE Minsk Group co-chair. He said that the
ministry would look into the issue to resolve it with the American
side in a working atmosphere.

Azada Balayeva, ANS.