19-YEAR-OLD ETHNIC ARMENIAN FACING DEPORTATION TO BAKU
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
April 13 2006
Baku, April 12, AssA-Irada
An ethnic Armenian, who was born in Upper Garabagh, an Azeri region
under Armenian occupation and illegally emigrated to the UK at the
age of 16, may be deported from London to Baku after the British
government has refused to grant him an asylum.
Karen Ovanesian, now 19, has lived and studied in the UK for three
years but has not received a work permit.
Ovanesian is expected to be flown to Moscow and then to Baku on
Tuesday. A source from the Foreign Ministry has told AssA-Irada that
there is no information available about the deportation.
While commenting on the incident, political analyst Mubariz Ahmadoglu
has called for restraint and cautioned that there might be politics
involved. He said Azerbaijan had better not display any emotion over
the proposed deportation and express its readiness to accept its
citizen. This may serve as an example of security guarantees for all
Upper Garabagh Armenians, he said.