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06 April 2011 [18:04] - Today.Az
If it is proved that the representatives of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus visited Nagorno Karabakh, these persons will be blacklisted and they will be banned from coming to Azerbaijan, Spokesman for Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elkhan Polukhov said.
He said that Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry had appealed to the Turkish side, but had not received a reply yet.
A group of persons from Northern Cyprus participated in the roundtable on the theme "Experience in peacebuilding and in peaceful co-existence after an armed conflict – the case of Cyprus" held in Khankendi on April 1-3 under the auspices of the UK-based organization International Alert.
Secretary General of the Republican Turkish Party of Northern Cyprus, former head of Lefkosa municipality, president of Northern Cyprus Business Association Kutlay Erk, chairman of Northern Cypriot Human Rights Foundation and member of the Supreme Court Council Emine Colak were also among them.
Baku representation of the Northern Cyprus issued a statement saying that they regretted that those persons had visited Khankendi.
/APA/
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