Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. P/ Amirdjanov/ Vasiliy Istratov, Russia's Ambassador to Azerbaijan has been called to come to the Azerbaijan Foreign Office due to the fact of distortion of the Azerbaijani history in the known Russian Encyclopedia. Particularly, Nagorno-Karabakh was indicated in this publication as "independent Armenian state"., Trend reports referring to the National AzTV Channel.
There was a half-an-hour talk with Mr. Istratov in the Foreign Ofice of the State, where a note of protest were presented to the Russian diplomat.
Mr. Istratov said that he had been wel-informed about the matter by adding that he would verify this piece of information.
Araz Azimov, the Deputy Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister, confirmed the information about the publication, after which a note of protest were presented to the Russian Ambassador. "The repetition of such facts is very unpleasant to us, therefore we would like to express our discontent to the Russian party due to the mentioned fact," added Mr. Azimov.