NEW ANTI-ARMENIAN HYSTERIA IN AZERBAIJAN – THIS TIME OVER PARTICIPATION OF NKR IN INTERNATIONAL TOURISM EXCHANGE IN MILAN

Noyan Tapan
Feb 23, 2010

MILAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The participation
of Artsakh in the International Tourism Exchange held in Milan
continues to be in the center of the Azerbaijani mass media’s
attention. Particularly there were reports quoting the official
representative of the Azerbaijani foreign ministry Elhan Polukhov as
saying: "Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs will instruct its
embassy in Italy to check the accuracy of the information about this
fair and, based on the results, the Azerbaijani side will take steps".

"Although the event is over, if Karabakh has participated in it, then
the fair organizers will be informed about the Azerbaijani side’s
position on that," Polukhov added.

To recap, on February 18-20 the NKR’s delegation headed by Sergey
Shahverdian, the head of the Tourism Department at the government
of the NKR, took part in the International Tourism Exchange held
in Milan. The Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia in Milan
Pietro Kuciukian accompanied the delegation. In order to ensure
its proper participation in the event, the NKR’s delegation had
applied in advance to the RA Ministry of Diaspora – in anticipation
of the ministry’s intervention for receiving support of the Armenian
community of Italy. The high-level participation, which was also due
to the intervention of the RA Ministry of Diaspora, produced a usual
anti-Armenian hysteria of the Azerbaijani mass media.