Greece harshly criticized its ambassador for his visit to occupied  Shushi

ArmInfo. Greece is outraged by the visit of Greek Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikos Piperigos to the Armenian Shushi occupied by Azerbaijan.

"Greek Ambassador to Baku Nikos Piperigos joined a propaganda tour  for over 40 diplomats organised by the Azerbaijani regime to recently  captured areas of historically- demographically Armenian  Nagorno-Karabakh," the Greek City Times writes.According to the  source: "Piperigos was joined by the charge d'Affaires of Austria,  Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Afghanistan, Algeria, Palestine,  Georgia, Croatia, Jordan, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy,  Colombia, Korea, Qatar, Latvia, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,  the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan,  Turkey, Ukraine, Japan, Greece, Belgium, UAE, Chile, Estonia, Iraq,  Iran, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Libya, Romania, Slovakia, Sudan, and  Venezuela, as well as representatives of the World Health  Organization and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Azerbaijan.

It is recalled that only last year during the ceremony of handing  over the Ambassador's credentials, Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev  said:

"I can tell you, and it is no secret, that Turkey is not only our  friend and partner, but also a brotherly country for us. Without any  hesitation whatsoever, we support Turkey and will support it under  any circumstances. We support them [Turkey] in all issues, including  the issue in the Eastern Mediterranean."

Yet, despite Ambassador Piperigos being told blatantly by the  Azerbaijani dictator that his country will blindly support Turkey in  their attempts to steal Greek maritime rights in the Eastern  Mediterranean, he still joined the propaganda tour on the weekend.

The Turkish-sponsored invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh led to horrific  war crimes such as beheadings, the use of white phosphorus and the  deliberate targeting of churches - even double-tap attacks against  journalists.

It is recalled that Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias was the  highest level foreign official to visit Armenia during the 2020  Nagorno-Karabakh War after demands were made by the Greek public to  express support for the embattled country.

However, the Greek public are now outraged that Ambassador Piperigos  joined the propaganda tour organised by the Azerbaijani regime,  especially since the U.S., Russian and French Ambassadors refused to  join.

The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan issued a  joint declaration in January following the Second Round of Trilateral  Dialogue of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, which was held in the  Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

In the joint declaration they reaffirmed to support each other's  territorial ambitions against Greece, Armenia and India.

Although Azerbaijan does not recognise the illegal entity known by  Turkey as the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," its Nakhichevan  autonomous region does in violation of United Nations Security  Council Resolution 541 and UN Security Council Resolution 550.

This suggests that if the Armenian administration in the areas of  Nagorno-Karabakh that were not invaded, based in the capital city of  Stepanakert, ceased to exist, the Azerbaijani government would become  the second country after Turkey to officially recognise the so-called  "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus."

Decisionmakers in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku for now have not  officially recognised the so-called "Turkish Republic of Northern  Cyprus" out of fear that Greece and Cyprus can retaliate by  recognising Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic.

It then begs the question why Ambassador Piperigos joined a  propaganda tour of the captured areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, especially  when his American, Russian and French counterparts refused to do so.

Ambassador Piperigos has not responded to any requests for answers  made by social media users.

The Greek Foreign Ministry did not respond to questions sent by Greek  City Times at the time of publication." 

To recall, the visit took place at the end of last week. The  ambassadors of the OSCE Minsk Group co- chairing countries - Russia,  France and the United States - did not take part in the trip. This  caused a negative reaction from Baku.

Such visits have already been assessed negatively in Stepanakert. By  the conviction of Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan,  such  visits to the occupied territories in the conditions of the  unresolved conflict, are not only unacceptable from the moral and  ethical point of view, but also testify to the encouragement of the  aggression of the Azerbaijani-Turkish tandem.

For the time being, Yerevan keeps a deaf silence in connection with  these actions of Baku and foreign diplomats.