[Armenian News note: the below is translated from the Russian edition of APA]

Azerbaijan has included a Swedish member of the European Parliament, Lars Adaktusson in its list of personae non grata, the APA news agency reported on 29 January.

"The visit of the Swedish member of the European Parliament, Lars Adaktusson, to Azerbaijan's occupied territories [Nagorno-Karabakh] on the eve of the Holocaust Memorial Day [26 January] is equal to support for the bloody ethnic cleansing Armenia perpetrated against more than one million Azerbaijanis and can be regarded as support for the act of genocide in Xocali [in 1992]," APA quoted Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hikmat Haciyev, who added that such visits violated Azerbaijani and international law and harmed the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group aimed at peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.