Wednesday, 26 March 2003

OFFICIAL BAKU OBJECTS TO LETTER BY TURKISH PRESIDENT

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By empty (3/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Azerbaijani officials protested the congratulation letter to Robert Kocharyan, President of Armenia, sent by Ahmed Nejdet Sezer, the President of Turkey. As Vilayet Guliyev, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic said Turkish ambassador, Ahmed Unal Chelikoz, was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed about the objection. Vilayet Guliyev thinks that the Turkish president must know the role of Kocharyan in the occupation of Azerbaijani regions, murder of Azeries and the policy of fictitious genocide of Armenians by Turkey in 1915.
Azerbaijani officials protested the congratulation letter to Robert Kocharyan, President of Armenia, sent by Ahmed Nejdet Sezer, the President of Turkey. As Vilayet Guliyev, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic said Turkish ambassador, Ahmed Unal Chelikoz, was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed about the objection. Vilayet Guliyev thinks that the Turkish president must know the role of Kocharyan in the occupation of Azerbaijani regions, murder of Azeries and the policy of fictitious genocide of Armenians by Turkey in 1915. The minister also noticed that, another reason to consider the congratulation letter an absurd as most of countries declared election in Armenia undemocratic. The Turkish ambassador stressed that, the congratulation letter of the Turkish president to Robert Kocharyan wouldn\'t influence to relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The Turkish Republic has no diplomatic relations with Armenia and the congratulation letter is only diplomatic formality. (ANS)
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