Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Ambassador Roland Kobia, and Polish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Michal Labenda were summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. A note of protest was handed over to them in connection with EU Rapporteur on Armenia Tomasz Poręba’s visit to Nagorno-Karabakh on December 19.

The MEP was blacklisted by Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh.

“As a rapporteur on Armenia in the European Parliament, I was obliged to visit Nagorno-Karabakh in order to prepare an objective report,” Tomasz Poreba, European Parliament MP, European Conservatives and Reformists Group, told NEWS.am after his visit to Karabakh.

During his two-day visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, he met with leadership of the republic, but the MP considers his main objective was to communicate with Karabakh people. Poreba said that he intends to share his impressions about the visit with the European counterparts. He also stressed that the Karabakh problem should be solved within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group based on Madrid Principles.

The MP also noted that after his visit to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh he plans to visit Azerbaijan and Georgia as well. “Despite the fact that I am the rapporteur on Armenia, the three countries are linked with each other,” he said.  By the way, after a visit to Karabakh, Poreba was included in a “black list” by Azerbaijan. Asked how he intends to visit the country being in a black list, the MP said, “My duty is to meet with all parties, to hear their position on the Karabakh issue. That is my job which I take very seriously, and nothing will stop me to prepare an objective report.”