MILAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The participation of Artsakh in the International Tourism Exchange held in Milan continues to be in the center of the Azerbaijani mass media's attention. Particularly there were reports quoting the official representative of the Azerbaijani foreign ministry Elhan Polukhov as saying: "Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs will instruct its embassy in Italy to check the accuracy of the information about this fair and, based on the results, the Azerbaijani side will take steps". "Although the event is over, if Karabakh has participated in it, then the fair organizers will be informed about the Azerbaijani side's position on that," Polukhov added. To recap, on February 18-20 the NKR's delegation headed by Sergey Shahverdian, the head of the Tourism Department at the government of the NKR, took part in the International Tourism Exchange held in Milan. The Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia in Milan Pietro Kuciukian accompanied the delegation. In order to ensure its proper participation in the event, the NKR's delegation had applied in advance to the RA Ministry of Diaspora - in anticipation of the ministry's intervention for receiving support of the Armenian community of Italy. The high-level participation, which was also due to the intervention of the RA Ministry of Diaspora, produced a usual anti-Armenian hysteria of the Azerbaijani mass media.

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