Details about the visit of MEP to Nagorno-Karabakh were added
Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec.24 / Trend, E.Ostapenko /
A written response of the Delegation of the European Union in Baku to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's protest note on the MEP Tomasz Poręba's illegal visit to Nagorno-Karabakh will be given to the Azerbaijani side on Monday, Roland Kobia, the head of the Delegation told journalists on Friday.
MEP, the keynote speaker on Armenia Tomasz Poręba, visited separatist Nagorno-Karabakh during his recent trip to Armenia, not informing official Baku about it.
In Nagorno-Karabakh he held meetings with the leadership of the unrecognized republic and discussing issues concerning the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, the situation in the region and bilateral relations, the Armenian media outlets reported earlier.
In the light of illigal entry to the territories of Nagorno Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on Tuesday presented a protest note to the head of the EU delegation in Azerbaijan Roland Kobia and Polish ambassador Mikhal Labenda.
Poręba visited Nagorno-Karabakh at his own initiative to get familiarized with the situation on the scene and prepare a report.
"As the rapporteur on Armenia, I realized that just having extensive information about the region I can prepare an objective and comprehensive report. The main goal of an informal visit to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, was to understand the situation on the scene, but not from outside," Poręba told Trend on Thursday.
"If Poręba sought to make an unbiased report, before the visit to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh he had to discuss this issue with Azerbaijani official circles, know our position and our attitude to his visit," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told Trend.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced MEP Tomasz Poręba persona non grata. According to Elkhan Polukhov, naming in the blacklist is the result of actions of Poręba himself that casts doubt on the impartiality of his position.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.