Hajiyev said that Ambassador Cekuta received a note of protest, sent by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the U.S. Department of State.

Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the US also held a meeting at the State Department to express the Azerbaijani side’s protest, the spokesman added. 

The note reads that the fact that Bako Sahakyan, a resident of Khankendi town of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, has obtained a visa to enter the US territory by presenting false information with an Armenian passport and has been given a permit to hold events in corresponding US institutions aimed at promoting the illegal regime and raising funds in the US in order to aid the occupation of Azerbaijani territories runs contrary to the norms and principles of international law, the UN Security Council resolutions, bilateral documents signed between Azerbaijan and the US, and the US official position, Hajiyev said.

He noted that this step by the US is regarded as an activity against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan.  

“The note also says that the US must fulfill its commitments in compliance with the norms and principles of international law and prevent any action in its territory aimed against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan,” the spokesman said. “While the US and Azerbaijan have partnership relations in other areas, such a surprising step by the US is considered biased and a change in its position regarding the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” Hajiyev said. 

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