Azerbaijan bans 335 foreign nationals over visits to Nagorno-Karabakh
12:28 03.08.2013
Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan on Aug. 2 banned 335 foreign nationals – including European
lawmakers, journalists and academics – from entering the country over
visits they made to Nagorno-Karabakh, the Hurriyet Daily news reports.
The Azerbaijani foreign ministry released a list – including several
deputies from France’s National Assembly, a member of the British
House of Lords and a Spanish opera singer – of people declared
personae non grata in the oil-rich former Soviet state.
All those on the list had `broken the law on Azerbaijan’s state
borders and disrespected the national sovereignty and territorial
unity of Azerbaijan,’ the ministry said in a statement.
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