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Panorama.am has contacted NKR Permanent Representative to Germany after the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities refused to attend a provocative propaganda “meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities” organized by the Azerbaijani authorities in Berlin on November 28. NKR Permanent Mission said that they received an invitation, or rather a request to participate in the “dialogue”, but they turned it down because of its format.

“The NKR Permanent Mission in Germany explained its refusal, saying that the notion of “Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh” is equal to the notion of “German community of Germany.” In this case, it is inappropriate to plan or think of dialogue without acceptance and respect for the right of a nation to self-determination. Instead of a “dialogue,” we proposed that our German colleagues use neutral Berlin to hold hearings for Azerbaijan to try to substantiate its refusal to withdraw snipers from the line of contact,” said Grigoryan.

We will remind that Azerbaijani media spread misinformation that allegedly at first representatives of NKR agreed to attend the event but then refused to.

“We have never given consent. Our whole correspondence was in a written form, and it is not difficult to prove that the Azerbaijani media are lying,” said NKR Permanent Representative to Germany Harutyun Grigoryan.

As to the organizers of this “dialogue,” one of them is the Caspian Region Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the next is the Azerbaijani-German Forum, the deputy head of which is the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Germany, and the third is the Caucasian – European Cultural and Scientific Society “EuroCaucAsia,” where Ramzin Mirzayev takes a top post. So it’s no use talking about German organizers of this event.