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Armenian community of Azerbaijanâ€™s Nagorno Karabakh region does not attend meeting in Berlin

29 November 2011 16:26 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting BBC Azeri service that Masis Mailyan, Chairman of the Foreign Policy and Security Council functioning in Nagorno Karabakh, attributed it to the â€œinadmissibilityâ€ of the format of the Berlin meeting. He considers since â€œthe conflict is between the citizens of Azerbaijan and Karabakhâ€ Armenians can not attend such meetings as a community.

Mailyan said â€œthe representationâ€ of Karabakh in Germany was invited to the meeting, but the invitation was rejected.

Armeniaâ€™s embassy in Germany said they knew about the meeting from Azerbaijani media, issued a statement saying they were unaware of such a meeting.
â€œOnly after our statement the embassy got an invitation to attend the meeting. We got the invitation last Friday, since it was late we could not include the meeting into the work schedule of the embassy.â€

Spokesman for Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev said he knew about the Berlin meeting from media and was not well-informed about the meeting. He said he only knew that a nongovernmental organization of Germany organized the meeting.

Azerbaijani embassy in Berlin said on Monday that they could not give information since all the staff members were at the meeting.

It was planned to hold a meeting in Germany on November 28 with the participation of the representatives of Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno Karabakh.

Armenian community did not attend the meeting entitled â€œNagorno Karabakh â€“ dialogue forum. Exchange of views between the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno Karabakhâ€.