Occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh prevents organizing postal services in this region of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan will not act as a transit country for the delivery of postal items to Armenia unless it withdraws from the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas, head of postal department of Communications and Information Technologies Ministry of Azerbaijan, Chairman of the postal commission of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications Novruz Mammadov said.

According to Mammadov, Azerbaijan undertakes to deliver postal items to all countries that are members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), while also ensuring the transit through its territory, except postal items addressed to Armenia.

"We strictly fulfill acts within the Universal Postal Union with regards to this issue. The exception is postal delivery or transit through the territory of Azerbaijan to Armenia unless Armenia withdraws from the occupied territories," said Mammadov.

With regards to delivery of postal items to Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas, it is also impossible because of the fact that these territories are under occupation.

"When we receive postal items addressed to Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and other surrounding areas, they are sent back, indicating that these territories are not available for sending," said Mammadov.

Earlier, postal items to Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas were sent through railway via Baku-Yerevan and Baku-Khankendi routes. Currently, postal items to low-lying part of Karabakh - Horadiz and Agdam - are sent by cars.

After the liberation of territories occupied by Armenia, postal items will be delivered from Horadiz to Zengilan, Gubadli, and from Aghdam to Khankendi and onward to Shusha.


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