Azerbaijan has not notified Georgia about declaring Georgian writers Dato Turashvili and Beso Khvedelidze as persona non grata. As the first secretary of Georgian embassy in Azerbaijan Kakha Abdaladze told InterPressNews, the embassy has not received official information about declaring the Georgian writers as persona non grata.
He states that according to the Azerbaijani law, without the central government’s permission, it’s banned to enter the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
“Georgian side knows this well. Georgian Foreign Department had spread information that without the permission of the central government of Azerbaijan, it is banned for a foreign citizen to enter the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”, Kakha Abdaladze stated.
He says that once writer Makvala Gonashvili visited Karabakh, who may also be in the list of the persona non grata.
Georgian writers Davit Turashvili and Beso Khvedelidze have been declared by Azerbaijani foreign Ministry as Persona non grata, the news agency news.az. informs.
According to the spreading information, Azerbaijani Foreign Department banned 335 individuals who visited occupied territory Nagorno-Karabakh without Azerbaijani permission from entering the country.
Citizens of foreign countries are in the black list for violation of the Azerabinai state border and distrust to the sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The agency informs that the former EU representative in the South Caucasus Peter Semneby, member of House of Lords of Great Britain Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox, Russian State Duma member Maksim Mishenko, Italian singer Albano, singer Philip Korkorov’s father Bedros Kirkorov, famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe are also in the list.

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