ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS FELT ENVY TOWARDS BEAUTY OF BAKU: RECTOR OF BAKU SLAVIC UNIVERSITY
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 29 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend S.Ilhamgizi / Azerbaijani Professor and
Rector of Baku Slavic University, Kamal Abdulla, who has recently
returned from Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, said on 29 June in his
interview with Trend that the Armenian intellectuals who visited
Baku felt envy towards the beauty of the capital. On 28 June, the
OSCE organized a visit to Khankendy and Shusha for Azerbaijani and
Armenian intellectuals, headed by the ambassadors of Azerbaijan and
Armenia to Russia. From there, they left for Armenia and met with
the Armenian President, Robert Kocharian.
Later the delegation arrived in Baku and was received by the President
of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
Abdulla said that the Armenian intellectuals visiting Baku were amazed
at the beauty of the city. Yerevan is an ordinary city. "In Yerevan we
saw only three or four newly constructed buildings. They regretfully
looked at Baku and understood the unsuccessful Armenian policy. They
understood that they have not achieved anything by occupying
Azerbaijani lands. I saw it from their eyes," the Professor said.