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Azerbaijani FM complains about Syrian Armenians settling in Karabakh
at meeting with Vatican secretary

BAKU. Feb 12

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov informed Msgr. Paul
Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States,
about the Karabakh settlement process at a meeting in Baku on Monday.

Armenian refugees from Syria are illegally settling in
Nagorno-Karabakh, Mammadyarov said. "The policy of settlements on the
occupied lands and attempts at wittingly changing the demographic
composition [of the population] flagrantly violate international law,"
Mammadyarov said.

He informed Gallagher about the Karabakh settlement process and Baku's stance.

The sides expressed concern about increasing racism, xenophobia,
ethnic and religious hate, and the aspiration to give a political
coloring to conflicts, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a
statement.