AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTRY REPRESENTATIVE TO RAISE ISSUE OF VISIT OF FRENCH DEPUTY TO OCCUPIED LANDS IN FRANCE

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June 10 2009
Azerbaijan

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
will raise the issue of the visit of French deputy Francois
Roschebloine to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, said spokesman
for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elkhan Poluhov.

"The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan has already given instructions
on this issue to chief of department of the Foreign Ministry of
Azerbaijan Rahman Mustafayev, who is currently in France to hold
consultations between the Foreign Ministry and to raise this issue
during consultations and check the reliability of the information
about the visit of the French deputy to the Azerbaijani lands,
occupied by Armenians", said Poluhov.

According to him, if this is true, the Azerbaijani side will bring
to the attention of the French part that this kind of actions of
officials of the French party is illegal.

The spokesman also noted that the consultations between the Foreign
Ministries are held on the level of the new departments of the two
Foreign Ministries.

"The event is planned, but as it coincided with the emergence of
such information, it was decided to give a parallel instruction to
the official of the Foreign Ministry", concluded E. Poluhov.

Earlier, Armenian media reported that a member of the National Assembly
of France, Chairman of the Group of French-Armenian friendship Francois
Rochebloine visited the occupied Azerbaijani territories and made a
number of statements there.