Ambassador: No threat to Israelis in Azerbaijan
The recent foiling of a terror plot against foreigners unveiled by Azerbaijani secret service shows that the Azerbaijani government ensures safety of all foreigners in the country, Israeli Ambassador Michael Lavon-Lotem has said.
"I and all the embassy staff feel comfortable and safe in Azerbaijan," Lavon-Lotem told journalists on Monday.
The Azerbaijani National Security Ministry said in mid-January that two Azerbaijani nationals who planned attacks on foreign public figures in Baku had been seized. The crimes were ordered in August 2011 by a resident of the Iranian city of Ardabil, who is wanted over grave crimes and has connections with the Iranian secret service agencies, the ministry said. Israeli media reported that the intended victims were the Israeli ambassador and two employees of a Jewish school in Baku, while Iran dismissed any involvement, saying such "scenarios" are being masterminded by forces opposed to its close relations with Azerbaijan.
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