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BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 15. Armenia and other countries are conducting smear campaigns against Azerbaijan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov told reporters on December 15, Trend reports.
The minister noted that the pre-agreed environmental monitoring, which was supposed to take place on December 10, was faced with protests.
"Two groups of Armenian activists impeded this monitoring in a provocative way, which resulted in peaceful protests of Azerbaijani environmental activists," Bayramov added.