April 23, 2002 - 21:27 AMT
AZERBAIJAN MADE SLOVENIA'S MFA CHANGE ITS ATTITUDE TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
The ministry of foreign affairs of Slovenia intends to send a protest note to Armenia. As «Arminfo» reports with reference to Baku sources, the basis for the displeasure of the foreign ministry of this country is supposedly distortion of the Slovenian foreign minister Dimitri Rupel's words that official Lubliana approves the Yerevan's position in Nagorno-Karabakh's conflict by Armenian media April 17. Azeri foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev claims Slovenian foreign minister has decidedly refuted reliability of the information and reported the foreign ministry intends to send a note of protest to Yerevan. According to Guliyev, in Yerevan as well as in Baku Rupel noted the leadership of his country did not have enough information about the Armenian-Azeri conflict so it could not express any points of view regarding this issue. Guliyev has reported Azeri side reported the Slovenia's representative about " the history of Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan" in details. Referring to Dimitri Rupel's words, Guliyev noted "after that Slovenia's attitude to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be more specific".