BRITISH COUNCIL REMOVES MAP INDICATING NAGORNO GARABAGH AS PART OF ARMENIA FROM ITS OFFICIAL WEBSITE – PHOTO – UPDATED
Today, Azerbaijan
Feb 7 2008
The incident connected with the map on the official website of the
British Council, has been settled operatively. In this connection,
Azerbaijan does not have any grounds to send a note of protest to
Great Britain"
The due statement was made by spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign
Ministry Khazar Ibragim, Day.Az reports.
He noted that Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry always inform other country
about the inadmissibility of such incidents if they occur anywhere,
apologizes are presented to Azerbaijan and the incident is considered
exhausted after an operative reaction.
———– 14:30
The map on the website of the British Council, which fixed Nagorno
Garabagh as part of Armenia, has just been removed, Day.Az reports.
Currently, the page of the map is not available.
———– 11:34
"The map, placed on the website of the British Council, will be changed
in two hours and all shortcomings will be removed", British Council’s
Marketing Director in Azerbaijan Elman Safiyev told Day.Az.
He said it became possible after the issue was discussed with the
due officials.
Spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibragim confirmed
the information.
———– 10:30
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan is currently dealing
directly with this issue so that to correct this rude mistake in
the shortest period of time", spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Khazar Ibragim told Day.Az.
————- 10:25
"I have been informed about it this morning. British Council’s position
is the same as that of the British government, according to which
Nagorno Garabagh is an integral part of Azerbaijan. We will contact
the office in Armenia to remove the map", British Council Director
on Marketing in Azerbaijan Elman Safiyev told Day.Az, commenting on
the situation.
He said the map has been put on the website by the office in Armenia.
A source from British Embassy to Azerbaijan asked to clarify the
issue in the British Council and after they were informed that the
British Council has already made an official comment, asked to call
again after 11:00 a.m., referring to an urgent meeting.
———— 10:22
First and foremost, we would like to inform readers about British
Council.
This is a department of the British government, presenting
Britishculture outside Great Britain. The Centers of the British
Council are functioning in 110 countries and territories.
In fact, British Council is a part of the Department of Foreign
Affairs of Great Britain. At the same time British Council is said
to be independent from the Department, though maintaining close
cooperation with it.
And now let’s get to the main point.
Day.Az has received a letter from our reader, who drew our attention
to the map of Armenia, placed on the OFFICIAL website of the British
Council.
We would like to present the map of the South Caucasus, worked out
by highly-educated professionals from the British Council.
Click on the map for a larger image:
As is seen from the map the occupied lands of Azerbaijan are
indicated as a territory of Armenia, in particular, the regions of
Nagorno Garabagh, as well as part of Geranboy region, which Armenian
separatists call "The Shaumyan region of the so-called "Nagorno
Garabagh Republic" and annex to the state which does not exist.
It should also be noted that at the map the name of Nakhchivan
is written by Armenian model and at the same time the Armenian
"cartographers" did not indicate that this territory belongs to
Azerbaijan.
Notably, Armenian daydreamers with "good" knowledge of political
geography "forgot" to indicate three Azerbaijani enclaves- Kyarki
west to Sadarak and two other enclaves of the Gazakh region. At the
same time, amnesia disappears when considering in the case of similar
Armenian enclave Artsvashen in the center of Gedabey region. It is
still here! In other words, everything is done by Armenian model.
In several hours Day.Az reporters will appeal for official comments
to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, British Embassy to Azerbaijan,
and British Council’s Baku office.
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