Polish MFA thinks Azerbaijani permission unnecessary to visit Karabakh

January 12, 2011 - 12:40 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Polish embassy in Baku issued a statement according to which Polish citizens “have no right to visit Karabakh without permission of the Azerbaijani authorities.”

“Nagorno Karabakh is an inseparable part of Azerbaijan and entry in this territory without official permission of Baku will be viewed as violation of Azerbaijan’s border,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, as the Polish embassy in Yerevan told PanARMENIAN.Net the statement was made at the consular level and doesn’t not reflect the position of the Polish Foreign Ministry.

The statement followed inclusion of MEP Tomasz Poreba, who visited Nagorno Karabakh in December 2010, in the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s ‘blacklist’.