Argentinean musician off Azerbaijan’s “black list”
By Trend
A citizen of Argentina, a member of the "Music for Peace"
project, musician Juan Manuel Dominguez, sent a letter to
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry asking for removal of his name from
the “List of foreign citizens who illegally visited the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan”, the Foreign Ministry told Trend.
In his letter, Juan Manuel Dominguez noted that he traveled to the
Nagorno-Karabakh region within the framework of the "Music for
Peace" project in 2015 and was unaware of prohibition of traveling
to that area without the consent of the government of Azerbaijan,
as well as the consequences of this visit.
He underlined that this visit doesn’t mean his disrespect for
Azerbaijan and its people.
Juan Manuel Dominguez reaffirming his full respect to the laws of
Azerbaijan expressed his apology to the country’s government for an
unauthorized visit to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
He also noted that as a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, more than one million Azerbaijanis have
become refugees and IDPs and more than 20,000 people have lost
their lives.
In this context, Juan Manuel Dominguez expressed the intention of
the "Music for Peace" project to visit Baku, especially Jojug
Marjanli village in order to organize master classes and perform
charity concert programs for Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs.
Appeal by Juan Manuel Dominguez was considered and the decision was
made to remove his name from the list of people declared personae
non gratae.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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