BAKU: Azeri Parliament Rejects Reports On ‘Congratulating ArmenianSp

AZERI PARLIAMENT REJECTS REPORTS ON ‘CONGRATULATING ARMENIAN SPEAKER’
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
June 12 2006
Baku, June 9, AssA-Irada
The reports suggesting that the chairman of Milli Majlis (parliament)
Ogtay Asadov has congratulated Tigran Torasian on his election as a
new speaker of the Armenian parliament are false, the Azerbaijani
parliament spokesman, Akif Nasirov, said in an interview with
AssA-Irada.
Armenian media reported Thursday that the Azeri speaker’s message of
congratulation was read out by a member of the Azerbaijani delegation
in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization (BSEC), Asaf Hajiyev, at a plenary session of the Assembly
in Yerevan.
Nasirov called these reports a “white lie” and another provocation
by Armenians, saying such a letter was never presented. He added that
the Azeri MPs who attended the session had made no statements to that
end either.