By Laman Ismayilova
The Czech Foreign Ministry has refuted Armenian media reports regarding anti-Azerbaijan statements allegedly made by Czech Republic’s ambassador to Armenia Petr Mikyska.
Deputy Spokeswoman of the Czech Foreign Ministry Irena Valentová told Trend that Mikyska had participated in a press conference organized by The National Press Club in Yerevan.
“The press conference output was not authorized by the ambassador and it contains messages that were not delivered by Ambassador Mikyska,” she said.
the deputy spokeswoman went on to add that following this event, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador in Prague was received at the Czech Foreign Ministry.
“With the above stated clarification, both sides consider this issue as resolved,” she said.
Earlier, Armenian media reported that the Czech Republic’s ambassador to Yerevan allegedly made anti-Azerbaijan statements in connection with Azerbaijan’s declaring several MEPs, including a Czech politician, internationally wanted for their illegal visits to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend that if the Czech ambassador had made such statements, this contradicts the law, the norms and principles of international law.
For about three decades Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a state of war following Yerevan’s aggression, ethnic cleansing policy and illegal territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenia keeps under control over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions in a brutal war in the early 1990s.
Despite a fragile ceasefire agreement signed in 1994, Armenia keeps violating armistice with Azerbaijan.