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Azerbaijani intellectuals visiting Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia stress necessity of maintaining contact with Armenians

29 June 2007 17:45 (UTC +04:00)

The head of delegation, Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu stated that after negotiating with his Armenian counterpart Armen Smbatyan on the necessity of establishing intercourse between the two communities, they decided to organize such visit.
Bulbuloglu regards that contact should be maintained with 60-70 thousand Azerbaijani citizens of Armenian descent living in Nagorno Karabakh, as two nations have always lived together and will live after it. The member of delegation, rector of Baku Slavic University Kamal Abdullah stated that they had no any threat while visiting their original places. Kamal Abdulla shared his impression on the miserable condition in Shusha city stressing that the people seemed poor and miserable. He attached importance of mainting contact between the two communities.
â€œOne day Azerbaijanis and Armenians will live together in Karabakh. So, it is important to seek for a contact spot between the communities,â€ he stressed.
Responding to the question of journalist â€œcan you write a novel similar to â€œBahadur and Sonaâ€ in the futureâ€ Abdulla said â€œyesâ€.
Rector of Baku Music Academy Farhad Badalbayli said when touching on the Nagorno problem in Europe he is always asked whether talks are held with Armenian community and whether they are told that they will live happily in Azerbaijan.
â€œI always thought that I would never be able to see Shusha, my grandfatherâ€™s house . I happy to have visited the region,â€ he stressed.
The professor also called the visit very hard, â€œI witnessed that Shusha cannot survive without Azerbaijan. This is the demand of the soil,â€ he said.
Chief of Theater of Figures Union Azerpasha Nematov considers that Shusha could only be occupied as a result of betrayal. The union chief expressed his confidence that the entire Karabakh will be released and regarded this visit as a great step.
â€œWe showed Azerbaijanâ€™s greatness,â€ he said.
Polad Bulbuloglu commented on their sitting in the room with the symbols of the so-called regime.
â€œArkadai Gukasyan is the head of Armenian community and there was such atmosphere that we could not protest him,â€ he said.
The ambassador considers that Azerbaijani community should be involved in the negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the head of the community Nizami Bahmanov will also visit Nagorno Karabakh. /APA/