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Azerbaijani “Vatan” society in Denmark has sent a letter of protest to Speaker of the Danish Parliament Mogens Lykketoft, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Mette Gjerskov and Danish MPs.
The society told APA that the letter was written as a protest against the visit of Danish MPs and journalists to Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan and the meetings held there.
The letter says: “I am writing to you on behalf of the members of the Azerbaijani community in Denmark to draw your attention to and express our deepest concern with the news coverage on Armenian mass media which allegedly refers to the recent visit of two members of the Danish Parliament to the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Since 1992 the Nagorno Karabakh and seven adjacent regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan have been illegally occupied by the Armenian military forces, in direct contravention of four UN Security Council Resolutions – numbers 822, 853, 874 and 884. However, the Nagorno Karabakh region has been, and remains legally and internationally recognized, including by the UN and the Danish Government, as the integral part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Therefore by visiting these territories everyone is in danger of bestowing a measure of legitimacy on an illegal military occupation, in direct conflict to the position of the Danish Government which recognizes the Nagorno Karabakh as the sovereign Azerbaijani territory.
We will highly appreciate your understanding of the sensitivity of the subject matter and we would like to express our hope that the members of the Danish Parliament will take the above-mentioned in due consideration and will avoid this kind of visits to the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.”
