YEREVAN. - Session of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interior Ministers’ Council was held in the Armenian capital Yerevan, and, as it is known, Azerbaijani Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov was among the officials who had arrived in Yerevan, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun daily writes.

“A fairly interesting incident occurred during the informal part of that gathering. Armenia’s Police Chief Alik Sargsyan invited the CIS interior ministers to a restaurant for a sumptuous dinner. [And] In order to secure the fun with song and dance, the Police Force also invited several representatives from Armenian show business. And one of them, Vardan Badalyan, who is born in Karabakh, began singing a song from his album, and the song was dedicated to Karabakh. The Azerbaijani delegation suddenly lost appetite from the [song’s] chorus line, where the word Karabakh continuously repeated. They simply put down [their] knives and forks, and with an apparent discontent began loudly complaining about what has happened. Armenia’s Police Chief and his entourage fell in an awkward situation and were compelled to reassure that there is no political insinuation, and that the singer simply chose that song from his repertoire,” Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun writes.