AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENTARIAN FROM KARABAKH AGAINST MEETINGS AND CONTACTS WITH ARMENIAN SEPARATISTS

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 5 2007

"I will not visit Karabakh, if offered, as we are defeated party,
though temporarily, and Armenia is a winning party. How could
we face the winning party? How could we ground our visit?" Elman
Mammadov, parliamentarian of Shusha-Fuzuli-Khojaly-Khojavand election
constituency #124, one of the representatives of "Nagorno Karabakh’s
Azerbaijani Community" public union said, in response to the question
whether he will join the second visit of Azerbaijani intellectuals
to Nagorno Karabakh, APA reports.

The parliamentarian said he does not understand the aim of this visit,
he is against these meetings and contacts and underlined that he will
never visit the occupied territories as a defeated party.

"I will visit these lands, when Azerbaijani Army liberates them. I
will only visit Nagorno Karabakh as a winner," he said.