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BAKU: Ecranas Spokesman Is Asked To Leave Baku For "NKR" Visa In His

ECRANAS SPOKESMAN IS ASKED TO LEAVE BAKU FOR "NKR" VISA IN HIS PASSPORT

APA
July 21 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku.Mehman Suleymanov – APA. Spokesman for Lithuanian Ecranas club
Gedas Sarochka’s interview to apasport.az

– Today your team meets with Baku in return match within the second
qualifying of the Champions League. But you are not in Baku, but
at home…

-Yes. I am in Vilnius. I was asked to leave Baku.

– Recently you visited the occupied territories of Azerbaijan,
Khankendi. Did the problem arise from that?

– Yes, I have a visa in my passport tat I was in Nagorno
Karabakh. Therefore I faced with a problem in Baku. We were invited
there month-two ago. We attended the journalists’ tournament there.

– You probably know that Armenians declared non-recognized "Nagorno
Karabakh Republic" in the Azerbaijan’s territories. Didn’t you expect
that you will face with a problem in Baku in this case?

-I didn’t expect that the problem would be so serious. I came to Baku
and received hotel accommodations together with my team. But then I
needed to leave Baku. The person who came to hotel informed me that I
couldn’t stay in Baku for that visa in my passport. I returned home. I
didn’t face with any pressure. They only told me that I should leave
Baku for that visa. They informed me about the situation between
Azerbaijan Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and said that I can return to
Baku after changing the passport. It was late. I can’t change the
passport and return to Baku in a short time. Today is a return game
between Baku and Ecranas.

-Didn’t they see that visa in your passport during the registration
in Baku airport?

-I think, no. They didn’t pay attention in that time, but then found
out it and asked me to leave. I regret for this story. I came to Baku
as a representative of the visitor team, as a friend and it was a
business travel at last. But it happened… I regret that I couldn’t
see beautiful Baku.

-How the return ticket and visa issue were solved?

– I had round-trip ticket for this Friday. They gave me a ticket for
another date and I had free ticket to return home.

-Do you regret for that?

– This is a life. The Armenians say that Nagorno Karabakh is their land
and you say that it is yours. I don’t want to speak about that and to
interfere in the political issues. In any case you know truth better.

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