Azerbaijani hysteria on Artsakh's participation in international tourism exhibition in Milan gave no results

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. An international tourism exhibition was held in Milan, Italy on February 14-17. This year the Nagorno Karabakh Republic participated apart from Armenia for the first time – exciting books, videos, wine, brandy and other stuff. The Nagorno Karabakh delegation consisted of 4 members headed by Sergey Shahverdyan – Head of the Historical Environment Protection and Tourism Department of the Government Sergey Shahverdyan.

"Pyunik" information center in Milan told "Armenpress" that the Azerbaijani pavilion was near to the pavilion of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. This time, too, the Azerbaijanis yielded to self-deception in order to "justify" their own loss being unable to ignore the fact that Nagorno Karabakh has its own pavilion and introduces itself to the world as an independent unit. Few hours after the exhibition opened one of the representatives of Azerbaijan approached the Nagorno Karabakh pavilion and arrogantly declared that Nagorno Karabakh having a separate pavilion is a violation of international legal norms. He demanded on leaving the pavilion and stopping distribution of leaflets about Artsakh. They also intruded the pavilion during the night and stole booklets and a big poster with inscription "Nagorno Karabakh".

The Chief Security Official called Kochukyan and Shahverdyan to his office, where four Azerbaijanis were waiting for them. They introduced a number of absurd statements and when the Chief Security Official realizing the absurdity of the Azerbaijanis' claims and their behavior, said that they had chosen a wrong place for holding such discussions. Moreover, continuation of this kind of behavior may become a reason to deprive Azerbaijan of a chance to introduce a pavilion in the next exhibition.