AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 17 2006
AZERBAIJANI EMBASSY IN MOSCOW SUBMITS NOTE OF PROTEST TO RUSSIA~RS
FOREIGN MMINISTRY
[March 17, 2006, 18:33:14]
Azerbaijani Embassy in Moscow submitted a note of protest to
Russia’s Foreign Ministry against the information published on the
Caucasus-related page of the Inter RAO EES company’s website.
In its note, the Embassy points to “inadmissibility of publications
reflecting the violation of territorial integrity of the Azerbaijan
Republic”, and requests the Russian Foreign Ministry to call on the
Inter RAO EES to eliminate the errors and distortions, and not allow
their repetition in future.
The Embassy also asks to forward the text of the note to the Inter
RAO EES for its personnel to have correct information about the
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh deals with by the
Russian Federation as co chair of the OSCE Minsk group.
On the webpage, the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by Armenian
armed forces is presented without pointing to its belonging to the
Republic of Azerbaijan; the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is not
mentioned as part of the Republic of Azerbaijan; names of several
Azerbaijani towns are presented as they sounds in Armenian: the
Azerbaijani towns Shusha as Shushi, and Lachin as Kashatag.