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March 12 2006
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Armenia: Azerbaijan protests to Eurovision organizers; dispute over
Andre’s birth place
Fotis Konstantopoulos reporting from Athens (Greece)
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan sent a protest
letter to the organizers of the Eurovision musical competition to be
held in Athens on indication of “Republic of Nagorno Karabakh” as
birthplace of Andre representing Armenia in his biography placed in
the official Internet page of Eurovision. APA was told by the
press-service of the Ministry.
The Ministry declared that this fact can be valued as disrespect and
diversion against territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and can be
understood as support by the organizers of the competition to
Armenian aggressor policy against Azerbaijan: “We hope that the
organizers of the Eurovision musical competition will eliminate this
misunderstanding in a shortest period and territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan recognized by world’s states will be respected”.