AZERBAIJAN, FEATHERS RUFFLED, OPTS OUT OF ISTANBUL FORUM

hetq.am/
2009/04/06 | 15:06

Region politics

Following news reports saying that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
will not attend a UN-led Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) meeting in
Istanbul today due to unease over Turkish-Armenian rapprochement,
another news report yesterday said that Baku would not even be
represented at the ministerial level at the meeting Azerbaijan’s
concern at the prospect of the border between its old foe Armenia
and Turkey being reopened resulted in Azerbaijan’s representation by
a five-member delegation led by Hidayat Orujov, chief of the State
Committee for Religious Communities, NTV reported yesterday, noting
that this level of participation had been confirmed by Azerbaijani
officials.