Visitors to Nagorno-Karabakh not welcome in Azerbaijan - ministry

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has said that foreign visitors to Nagorno-Karabakh are not welcome in the country, Trend reports.

Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of the Russian Duma, has expressed his disagreement with the decsion, which extends to international observers of recent polls in the disputed territory.

Five deputies from the Russian Duma - Konstantin Zatulin, Igor Chernyshenko, Kirill Cherkasov, Tatyana Volozhinskaya and Maxim Mishchenko - have been put on the Azeri 'blacklist' after observing the recent polls.