DIPLOMATS CANNOT TALK WITH VILLAGERS OF BENANIYAR

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.01.2010 18:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Diplomats from the United States and Norway visited
the Foreign Ministry of Nakhichevan and plan to visit Baku.

Representatives of the U.S. Embassy Joanna Ganson, and the Embassy
of Norway Lars Hansen on Wednesday had an unpleasant incident, radio
"Freedom" reported.

The night before they went to the region to familiarize with the
situation in the village Benaniyar . On the morning of January 13,
entering the village they encountered a group of excited people who
verbally abused them and screamed. The group stopped their vehicle
as it entered the village, verbally threatened them and forced them
to leave before any contacts with village residents were made.

Nevertheless, diplomats drove into the village, but with anyone
of their residents, they could not talk because no one went out of
their homes.

In the Azerbaijani village Benaniyar, located on the territory of the
Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), in early January mass arrests
were made, some of the residents were beaten by security forces.