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Beijing dismisses reports on recognizing separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh

22 May 2015 16:21 (UTC+04:00)
Beijing dismisses reports on recognizing separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh

By Sara Rajabova

China has refused a media report that it allegedly submitted a resolution on recognition of the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh to the UN Security Council.

Hikmat Hajiyev, head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told this Trend commenting on the issue.

Russian media reported that the prime minister of China allegedly tweeted that “if the United States, France and Russia support China's resolution on recognizing the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, it will become an independent country and enter the UN.”

He said the Chinese embassy in Azerbaijan explained the official position of the country.

Hajiyev said that this information is “another meaningless show of Armenian propagandists.”

The Foreign Ministry instructed the Azerbaijani embassy in China to bring information of the Russian media to the attention of Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Though this unfounded report was joyfully met by Armenians, their delight didn’t last too long.

The Chinese embassy in Armenia also called the message appeared on the Internet as false information.

Though the Russian media reports based on Chinese premiers tweets, it should be noted that China's access to social networks is closed (banned).

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.

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Sara Rajabova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @SaraRajabova

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