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APA Tue 06 September 2016

Azerbaijan will blacklist Belgian MPs for illegally visiting its occupied lands.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Belgium has raised the issue of a group of Belgian MPs paying a visit to the occupied Azerbaijani territories has been raised before the Belgian parliament’s Chamber of Representatives, the Flemish Christian Democratic Party, and the country’s Foreign Ministry, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hikmat Hajiyev told APA on Tuesday.

Hajiyev noted that despite Armenia overstating the matter, the visits made by Els Van Hoof, head of the Belgium-Armenia parliamentary friendship group, and Georges Dallemagne, member of the Chamber of Representatives, is an individual one.

He added that Els Van Hoof has close ties with Armenia and its lobbyist organizations.

 “The Belgian Chamber of Representatives said the visit has nothing to do with the organization’s activities and that there is no mention in the Chamber’s working schedule of any visit to Armenia or any other place. The secretariat of the Flemish Christian Democratic Party said they were unaware of this visit and that it was an individual visit,” Hajiyev said.

He added that the aforementioned persons will be added to the list of “undesirable persons” of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry after verification.