FOREIGN MINISTRIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN DO NOT BELIEVE THEIR SCIENTISTS CARRY OUT RESEARCH IN AZERBAIJAN’S OCCUPIED AZYKH CAVE

Azeri Press Agency
March 13 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova, Tamara Grigoryeva-APA. Department of Foreign
Affairs of Great Britain considers that the reports that British
scientists signed a long-term contract with the separatist regime
to carry out research in Azykh Cave located in the Armenian-occupied
Azerbaijani territory Nagorno Karabakh, are groundless, Press Service
of the Department of Foreign Affairs told APA.

But the department also said they would follow the issue.

Press Service of Spanish Foreign Ministry told APA that they were
unaware of such a contract. The Press Service said there were over
1000 research organizations in the country.

"But if there is such a contract, we can assure you that the
organization that signed it is not a government body," the service
said.

Azerbaijan’s embassies in Spain and Great Britain have already started
to investigate this report. Spokesman for Foreign Ministry Khazar
Ibrahim told APA that if the information was confirmed, Azerbaijan
would express its position and achieve to stop such illegal activities.

A Russian cyclist, who visited Armenia and then Nagorno Karabakh a
year ago, took footage in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

According to the footage, British and Spanish scientists signed
25-year contract to carry out research in Azykh Cave.