ARTHUR LENK: "ISRAELI GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CHANGE ITS POSITION ON AZERBAIJAN"

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 24 2008

Goranboy. Teimour Guliyev -APA. "Israel supports Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity and interested in development of friendly
relations between the two countries", Arthur Lenk, Israeli Ambassador
to Azerbaijan said, APA Karabakh bureau reports.

Commenting on proposal on the recognition of so-called Armenian
genocide in Knesset, he said that discussion of this issue did not
mean that Israeli Government had changed its position on Azerbaijan.

"There is democracy in Israeli Parliament. Any parliamentarian can
raise the issue and put it to the vote. Genocide is not a political
issue. Historians should investigate it and deliver realities to
international community. Israeli Government wants peaceful solution
to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and calmness in the region.