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Iran’s mobile operator signs roaming agreement with Karabakh Telecom operating in Azerbaijani occupied lands

21 May 2008 [17:31] - TODAY.AZ
Mobile operator of Iran Telecommunications Kish Company has signed a roaming agreement, contradicting the international norms, with Karabakh Telecom operating in the occupied Azerbaijan’s territory Karabakh.
APA reports that Nagorno Karabakh is shown as Armenia’s territory on the official website of the company.

Besides, Gemini network LTD producing phone cards (GeMobile) in Lithuania also made it available to phone to Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied regions of Azerbaijan. European subscribers can contact Nagorno Karabakh and the occupied regions of Azerbaijan through these phone cards.

The website (http://www.gemobile.lt/?lang=ru&country=99&rage=rrice) of this company also shows Nagorno Karabakh as Armenian territory.

The situation is the same in Russian company Telekomtrade (http://www.pomortel.ru/ipciahtml). The company allows to phone from Russia to the occupied Azerbaijani territories. The company’s website also shows Nagorno Karabakh as Armenia’s territory.

Press secretary for Iranian embassy in Azerbaijan Majid Feyzullahi Kish said the Telecommunications Company was a private organization.

"I suppose the company did it because of the lack of information, not on purpose," he said.

Azerbaijani ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Iran Abbasali Hasanov said they would investigate the cooperation between Telecommunications Kish Company and Karabakh Telecom.

First secretary of Lithuania’s Embassy in Azerbaijan Viliyes Samuela told APA that he would inform his country’s Foreign Ministry about it.

He said Lithuania’s policy in connection with Azerbaijan had not changed.

"It is a private company. It may have happened mistakenly and due to the lack of information," he said.

Spokesman for Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibrahim said that relevant instructions would be given to Azerbaijan’s diplomatic missions in these countries.

/APA/
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