Armenia uses int'l events to popularize separatist regime
By Sara Rajabova
Yerevan once again attempted to popularize the puppet separatist regime it created in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced that Armenia is attempting to use the international tourism exhibition in Rimini, Italy for political purposes to popularize the separatist regime in the occupied territories.
Azerbaijan’s embassy in Italy took all the necessary measures to prevent the participation of the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh in the international tourism exhibition in Rimini, lasting from October 8 to 10, the ministry reported.
Being deprived of all opportunities to present the separatist regime at the exhibition, Armenian representatives confined themselves to handing out brochures in Armenian language about the regime created in the occupied Azerbaijani lands, according to Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry.
The embassy continues to maintain contact with Italy’s foreign ministry and the organizers of the exhibition to prevent the attempts of the Armenian side from turning the tourism exhibition into an object of political provocations, according to the ministry.
The foreign ministry stated that Armenia’s attempts to turn the international tourism expo into an object of political provocations, popularization of the illegal regime established in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands, as well as its presenting these lands as Armenian territories once again shows that Yerevan’s participation in the negotiations on resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an imitation.
Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, causing a brutal war in the early 1990s.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. However, the negotiations have been largely fruitless so far despite the efforts of the co-chair countries over 20 years.
The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.
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