INFORMATION ON PARTICIPATION OF REPRESENTATIVE OF NKR AT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN GERMANY IS FALSE: EMBASSY

Trend
Nov 3 2009
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Embassy in Germany denied Armenian media outlets’
information about participation of representative of so-called
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic at the international exhibition in
Dusseldorf.

On October 28, Armtown.Com published the information on its website
about participation of head of orthopedic center under the Ministry
of Social Protection of so-called Nagorno-Karabakh Republic at the
international exhibition "REHACARE International 2009" to be held in
Dusseldorf on Oct. 13- 17.

The Azerbaijani Embassy in Germany got in touch with organizers of
the exhibition and found out that the name of a representative of
so-called Nagorno-Karabakh is not included in the list of participants
of the exhibition, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Trend News
with reference to the embassy on November 3.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in
December 1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha,
Khojali and seven districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan
and Armenia signed a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. — are currently holding
peace negotiations.