Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry may expand its 'black-list'

By Azernews

By Rashid Shirinov

The Azerbaijani Embassy to Belgium appealed to Chamber of Representatives of Belgian Parliament, Council of the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party, which Els Van Hoof belongs to, as well as the country's Foreign Ministry in connection with the illegal visit of Parliament members to the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

Hikmat Hajiyev, Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, made the statement while commenting on the visit of the Belgian Parliament’s members to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, APA reported.

He said the visits of the Chairman of the Belgium Parliament’s friendship group with Armenia, Els Van Hoof and member of the Chamber of Representatives George Dalman are private, despite the speculation on this trip organized by Armenia.

Hajiyev stressed that Els Van Hoof has very close ties with Armenia and the Armenian lobby: “The Belgian Chamber of Representatives stated that this visit is in no way connected with the activities of the Chamber, the working schedule of the Chamber has no scheduled visits of Van Hoof to Armenia or elsewhere. The Secretariat of the party Christian Democratic and Flemish noted that they are not aware of this visit and the trip is a private initiative of the MP".

Hajiyev added that after appropriate clarification the names of these MPs will be included in the list of "undesirable persons".