“The reports on the congratulations allegedly addressed by Azeri Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov to newly elected Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly are groundless and false,” Akif Nasirov, the Spokesman of the Azerbaijani Milli Mejlis stated. “There was no congratulation of the kind and such reports appear as a part Armenia’s anti-Azerbaijani propaganda,” he added.
Meanwhile, as RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, Asadov’s congratulatory address was read June 8 by Asif Hajiyev, the head of the Azeri delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization at the BSECO PA plenary session in Yerevan.
“Oktay Asadov has really addressed a message to the BSECO PA and a congratulatory message to me. It was read during the session. By the way, the Echo, Baku-based newspaper, has already written that Asadov was right to invite the delegates to Baku but the congratulation to Tigran Torosian on the occasion of his election to the post of the Speaker was, to put it mildly, was unnecessary,” the RA NA Chairman reminded.
