Azerbaijan Unable To Stop Nagornyy Karabakh Republic’s Tourism Devel

AZERBAIJAN UNABLE TO STOP NAGORNYY KARABAKH REPUBLIC’S TOURISM DEVELOPMENT – NKR OFFICIAL

Mediamax news agency
6 Feb 07

Yerevan, 6 February: "Azerbaijan’s political hysteria about our
participation in the international tourism market will not be able to
impede the development of tourism in the Nagornyy Karabakh republic
(NKR)," the director of the NKR tourism development agency, Sergey
Shakhverdyan, has told Mediamax.

Commenting on Azerbaijan’s protest at the circulation of booklets about
the organization of tours to Nagornyy Karabakh at an international
tourism exhibition in Madrid, Shakhverdyan said that "tourism does
not recognize state borders, and people go where they want along the
route that is convenient to them".

He said that Azerbaijan’s attempts to politicize these issues "are
devoid of common sense and will not affect the development of tourism
in Nagornyy Karabakh".

Shakhverdyan recalled that an almost 40-per-cent increase in visits
to Nagornyy Karabakh by foreign tourists is recorded annually.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS