ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY POSITIVE ON WEEK OF AZERBAIJAN IN ARMENIA
Today, Azerbaijan
Dec 18 2007
"We approve all initiatives aiming at expanding a dialogue in the
South Caucasus".
The Statement was made by the spokesman of Armenian Foreign Ministry
Vladimir Karapetyan.
He said the event demonstrates Armenia’s loyalty to dialogue and peace:
"We regard this as an example of our loyalty to dialogue and peace. The
same has been said by the Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan
during his visit to Madrid.
Such arrangements must not end in themselves, we would like this
initiative to continue in all countries, engaged in the program. We
are confident that public diplomacy and international communication
will encourage peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Garabagh conflict".
It should be noted that the Week of Azerbaijan has started in Armenia.
The event will be organized in Yerevan in the Mkhitar Sebastatsi
educational complex headed by Ashot Bleyan.
The Azerbaijani delegation, which participates in the event, includes
writer Seymur Baycan and the representatives of Azerbaijan office of
Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and several human rights activists
The schoolchildren will write compositions on the topic "How I imagine
Azerbaijan" and "How I see the future of Armenia and Azerbaijan"
during the week of Azerbaijan.
The film "Open borders" by Luisa Pogosyan about Nagorno Garabagh,
a territory of Azerbaijan, occupied by Armenians, will be presented
during the event.
The British Embassy to Armenia is among the organizers of the event.
Mkhitar Sebastatsi is a state school, headed by the former Education
Minister of Armenia Ashot Bleyan, who had been in prison for several
years and who is often blamed for his pro-Azerbaijan position.
Bleyan protests against Armenia’s occupying Azerbaijani territories
and speaks for establishment of close relations with both Azerbaijan
and Turkey.