Azerbaijan, Baku, April 2 / Trend /
The Russian parliamentary newspaper has removed excerpts from the Prime Minister of the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" Arayik Harutyunyan's interview given to Reuters from its official website.
The parliamentary newspaper recently published excerpts from Harutyunyan's interview given to Reuters, in which the Nagorno-Karabakh has been represented as an independent state.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry today expressed concern over the official publication of information where Nagorno-Karabakh has been represented as an independent state.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said in an interview with the media that the Azerbaijani embassy in Russia will receive detailed guidelines for the proper reaction to these publications in the Parliamentary newspaper.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.