Russian MFA to respond to Baku's notes concerning reporting and encyclopedia article on Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Procedure of responding to Azeri MFA's diplomatic notes is being followed: the Azeri side like other countries does not respond to our all notes quickly and decisively. Sometimes questions are being dragged out and sometimes no responses are followed at all," Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov stated. He said, both notes of the Azeri MFA will be responded. "Moscow gave the answer to the first note last week. As soon as we receive the answer of the second note we will send it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. We hope we will receive the answer one of these days," the Ambassador said.



According to Istratov, there is no censorship in Russia like in the Soviet times. "I've read what was written in the encyclopedia. I am not saddened at all with what is written there. But the publication is private. There does not exist a body in Russia like in Soviet times the Central Board for Literature and Publication, which would decide what to include in publishing materials. Azerbaijan has the right to express its opinion on the issue. But it is important to realize that the state has not the right to anyhow influence with a ban on a private publication," Vasili Istratov underlined, APA reports.



On April the Russian MFA received two notes from Azerbaijan. One of them concerned a reporting broadcast by the Russian State Television and Radio Company on the Nagorno Karabakh. The second material was issued in the Russian Encyclopedia, where NKR is called an independent state.