Foreign Ministry confirms Armenian Ambassador received death threats from Azeri counterpart

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YEREVAN, November 5. /ARKA/. Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Paruyr Hovhannisyan confirmed that Armenian ambassador to Belgium and EU, Tigran Balasanyan, received death threats fromnbsp; Azerbaijani Ambassador Vagif Sadigov./pp

Yes, according to the information received, insults and threats were made during a reception organized by the Turkish embassy, prompting us to send a note to both the Belgian authorities and the European Union. Based on my information, an investigation is currently underway regarding this matter, Hovhannisyan told journalists in parliament./pp

In response to a question regarding the reaction, the deputy minister stated that there had been none so far, but that an official notification about this situation had been sent./pp

The day before, Politico reported that anbsp;letter circulated to envoys last week,nbsp;alleged that Armenian Ambassador Tigran Balayan was “verbally attacked and intimidated” by Azerbaijani Ambassador Vaqif Sadiqov, who “voiced explicit threats against his life.”/pp

According to Politico, the incident happened at a reception at the Tangla Hotel in Brussels, hosted by the Turkish Embassy in honor of the country’s national day./pp

It is understood to have been the first Ankara-sponsored engagement the Armenian Embassy had been invited to since a 2020 war between the country and Azerbaijan, a close ally of Turkey.nbsp;-0-/pp nbsp;/p