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Ministry of Culture and Tourism sent protest to Eurovision 2006 organizers

12 March 2006 [17:31] - TODAY.AZ
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan sent a protest letter to the organizers of the Eurovision music contest to be held in Athens on indication of "Republic of Nagorno Karabakh" as birthplace of Andre representing Armenia in his biography placed in the official webpage of Eurovision.

The Ministry declared that this fact can be valued as disrespect and diversion against territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and can be understood as support by the organizers of the competition to Armenian aggressor policy against Azerbaijan: "We hope that the organizers of the Eurovision music contest will eliminate this misunderstanding in a shortest period and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan recognized by the world's states will be respected," APA was told by the press-service of the Ministry.

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