Russian firm organizes trips to Azeri rebel region
Russian tourism company Astravel is organizing trips along with central and southern Armenia to Nagorno Karabakh, an Azerbaijani region occupied by Armenian armed forces.
The company posted this announcement on its website, http://www.astravel.ru/catalog/CIScountries/Armenia/tour/1672.
The company says that during these trips running for seven days and six nights, tourists will not only be able to visit Armenian cities but may also visit Nagorno Karabakh, including Shusha and Aghdere, and familiarize themselves with the cultural and historical monuments.
"Azerbaijan has no control over such trips," head of the Azerbaijani culture and tourism ministry’s domestic tourism department, Mahir Gahramanov, told Trend news agency on Thursday. "However, the ministry has always expressed its discontent with such instances."
"In such cases we always express our protests and inform the Foreign Ministry and other authorized bodies about them, but we cannot constantly monitor this," he said.
This story is published by AzerNEWS Weekly under a project funded by the Foundation for State Assistance to the Development of the Media under the President of the Azerbaijan Republic.
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