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Azerbaijani official calls Moscow Patriarchyâ€™s statement irresponsibility

15 January 2010 11:11 (UTC +04:00)

According to APA, Hidayat Orujov told journalists that he regretted about the statement by the Moscow Patriarchyâ€™s official for foreign churches. â€œIt is irresponsible statement. Nagorno Karabakh is an Azerbaijani land. Why they do such mistake? Why they put Nagorno Karabakh church on same line with the Yerevan and Gumru churches? I donâ€™t know the person who made this statement. He used inaccurate, hasty phrase which could be understood differentlyâ€.

Orujov said he discussed this issue with Bishop of Baku and Caspian Eparchy Alexander. â€œI made serious remarks in a phone conversation with him. He promised to learn the issue and inform about thatâ€.

Moscow Patriarchyâ€™s spokesman Philip Ryabikh, who spoke about the upcoming visit of the Russian Patriarch Cyril to Armenian in March at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday, said â€œMoscow Patriarch had three churches in Armenia â€“ in Yerevan, Gumru, the Russian military base and in Nagorno Karabakhâ€, confirming that the Patriarchy considers Nagorno Karabakh as Armenian territory.