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By Rashid Shirinov

The Azerbaijani Embassy in Spain has prevented another Armenian provocation at an international event, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend on May 1.

The participation of a representative of the illegal regime created by Armenia in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan was planned for May 5-15 at the Costa Blanca Fashion Week.

“The Azerbaijani Embassy in Spain has appealed to the relevant structures of the country and the organizers of the event, thus taking the necessary measures to prevent such provocations by the Armenian participants,” Hajiyev noted.

As a result of these measures, the representative of the illegal regime was excluded from the participation list.

Armenian diaspora often uses the international arena to distort the essence of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and present this region of Azerbaijan as Armenian. However, Azerbaijan timely prevents such provocative attempts.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan by laying territorial claims on 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. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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