Azerbaijan, Baku, 7 August / Trend corr. S.Ilhamgizi / The two years contract on cooperation between the company Karabakh Telecom, which has been operating in the Azerbaijani occupied territory in Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkish communication company Avea CJSC, was cancelled. This was reported Trend from the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan on 7 August.
Recently, the Azerbaijani media has released the information that Karabakh Telecom has signed contracts with companies from nearly 100 countries including the Turkish Avea company.
For this reason the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan asked Avea to clear the issue. The company informed that the address of the Karabakh Telecom was registered incorrectly in the contract. The mutual international roaming service was opened on the base of the contract signed on 13 March 2005. "However, the incorrect address of the company Karabakh Telecom was revealed on 5 August 2008. The contract was cancelled in the same day and the international roaming connection was closed," is stated in the statement by the Turkish Embassy.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan lost the control over Nagorno- Karabakh (excluding Shusha and Khojali) to December 1991. Shusha, Khojali and seven regions had been occupied. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.
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