ARMENIAN PRESIDENT IN SWITZERLAND By Hovik Afyan Since … Azerbaijan has sent a protest note to Switzerland Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is leaving for an official visit to Switzerland on May 2. Serzh Sargsyan has scheduled meetings with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of the Swiss National Council Jean-Rene Germanier. He will also meet with representatives of the Armenian community in Switzerland. Serzh Sargsyan visited the 25th International Fair for Books and Press. In the Armenian pavilion he saw books printed in publishing houses in Armenia and Diaspora and watched an exhibition titled "12 Capitals of Armenia". The Armenian President also attended the opening ceremony of the Digital Library of Armenian Bibliography and visited an Exhibition of Modern Art. The Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Ministry has sent a protest note to the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs in connection with the International Fair for Books kicked off in Geneva. As the neighboring country’s media agencies inform, Baku is dissatisfied with the Swiss organizers, as "at the international exhibition in the Armenian stands different materials are demonstrating that distort the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan". The Azerbaijani embassy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has sent a protest note to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in this connection. Ambassador Murad Najafbayli met with the heads responsible for organizing the exhibition Bernard Quiot and Adeline Beaux. He expressed his indignation at the meeting that "the historical truth is distorted in the materials displayed in the Armenia's stand". The Ambassador called for the removal of those materials from the Armenian stand. Berne has not yet officially responded Baku note, while "the materials distorting the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the history" continue remaining in the Armenian stand. Moreover, they would likely remain there until the closure of the exhibition on May 3. During the Official visit of the president of our Republic, anyone would hardly "endow" the withdrawal of any specimen from the Armenian stand, especially when they are not about a distortion of any history and any country. |