Miss Caucasus-2006 beauty contest participants' photos to be taken on occupied Azeri lands

Azerbaijan will not participate in the contest, APA reports.

The contest will be broadcasted by Georgian and Armenian televisions and also by MIR Interstate Broadcasting Company. The photos of contest participants will be taken in Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani province of Nagorno Karabakh.

The winner of the contest will get a crown decorated with precious stones and money grant as well as the right for participating in Miss Tourism-2006 in Czechia.
Armenians hold this type of contest for the second time.

Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry official Intigam Humbatov told the APA that Azerbaijan has not received an invitation for the contest.

"They are pursuing their crafty policy under the name of cultural events. We must not allow them to continue this policy. This contest is of not state interest, and that is why we will not appeal to definite bodies for that," he said.