Azeri embassy in Russia protests at Karabakh-related conference

Lider TV, Baku
19 May 07

The Azerbaijani embassy [in Moscow] has send a note of protest to the
Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the Call of Mrav [Murov
mountain] conference on the history and fate of Azerbaijan’s Goranboy
District planned for 27 May.

The embassy said in the note that if conducted, the conference would
have a negative impact on bilateral ties [between Russia and
Azerbaijan], as the main aim of the conference was to give a distorted
view of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
to Russian society. It is also aimed at damaging Azerbaijani-Russian
relations, the embassy said.

It was stressed that such provocative acts, which had been taken many
times before, had a negative impact on public opinion in Azerbaijan
and on the Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia. In addition, the embassy
voiced serious concern about the dangerous tendencies of
anti-Azerbaijani propaganda that have been seen in the Russian media
lately.

The embassy asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to take comprehensive
measures to stop such tendencies and maintain the current level of
relations between Azerbaijan and Russia.