'Please, show sensitivity towards Azerbaijan': envoy

Sir, Further to your article “Valuable partner in energy ambitions” (Turkey and the World, FT Special Report, September 21), I am writing to raise my concern about the mentioning of Nagorno-Karabakh as a disputed enclave. It is of utmost importance that things are called by their names. Nagorno-Karabakh is an internationally recognised part of the Republic of Azerbaijan that is currently under the military occupation of Armenian armed forces together with seven adjacent regions.

What exists in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding occupied territories is an unrecognised separatist regime and should be called as such. To call it a “disputed enclave” plays into the hands of the separatist regime which strives to gain international legitimacy. It has been set up in violation of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and forced the eviction of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis amounting to ethnic cleansing.

I am very well aware how seriously the Financial Times takes the territorial integrity of states in light of the recent developments in our region and not only there. Therefore I would like to see the same sensitivity to be shown in all cases, including Azerbaijan.

Tahir Taghizadeh, Ambassador of Azerbaijan in London

(The Financial Times)

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