On 26 February Deputy Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammad-Guliyev received Vladimir Dorokhin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Azerbaijan.
The Foreign Ministry’s press service told APA that at the meeting Deputy Minister Mammad-Guliyev expressed the concerns and protest of the Azerbaijani side over the publication of an on-line article entitled "Nagorno-Karabakh is used to being unrecognized for 25 years" on the official website of RIA Novosti, the Russian State News Agency on the eve of the anniversary of the Khojaly Genocide.
The Deputy Minister brought to Ambassador's attention the fact that recently there has been an increase in the number of articles in the Russian media which are directed against Azerbaijan. He underlined that the publication of the article on the website of the Russian State News Agency is particularly regrettable and overshadows the activity of the Russian Federation towards a resolution of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
The Deputy Minister also noted that the article does not reflect reality, includes calls for encouraging separatism and extremism and disrespects the principle of territorial integrity, a fundamental principle of international law.
