Twenty-six youth organizations from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Javakhk and Diaspora wrote an open letter condemning recent statement of the Polish Foreign Ministry forbidding its citizens to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, “as it is Azerbaijan’s territory according to the international law”. Moreover, Poland’s foreign office demands getting “permission” of the official Baku before visiting Nagorno-Karabakh (http://www.baku.polemb.net/).  

In the letter Armenian youth organizations recall that the Artsakh people proclaimed independence in the letter and spirit of international law. “We would like to add that Polish and Armenian people historically had friendly relations. It is not mere chance that the Armenian cavalry, being a part of the Polish army, managed to defeat enemy and destroy sultan when the Turks were getting ready to conquer Vienna and intrude into Europe. It is just an episode of the friendly relations between our nations. In this regard, we, the representatives of the Armenian youth organizations, condemn at least odd and obscure anti-Armenian decision of the Polish Foreign Ministry and demand that it should be reversed,” the letter says.