Azerbaijan reveals foreign diplomatic missions, international  organizations explaining away their non- attendance at Baku parade 

ArmInfo.  Azerbaijan has revealed which representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations, under various pretexts, refused to participate in the military parade commemorating the so-called  victory over Artsakh.

The ambassadors of Germany, Latvia, and Switzerland were outside the  country. The representative of the Council of Europe had a  pre-scheduled meeting. The Greek ambassador is preparing to leave the  country, and the Portuguese ambassador's mission has ended. However,  some diplomats ignored the invitation without explanation. For  example, the ambassador of France, the representative of the European  Union, the ambassadors of Belgium, Lithuania, Austria,  representatives of the WHO and the UN, and the ambassador of the  Netherlands did so. The ambassadors of Spain and Estonia called to  say they would observe the parade on the evening of November 7, but  were told it was already late and there were no seats, Minval  reports.

Representatives of 75 countries were present in the stands.  Thirty-seven of them, including Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic,  Hungary, Moldova, China, Israel, and Iran, were represented at the  ambassadorial level. The United Kingdom, Chile, Afghanistan, Italy,  and several other countries were represented by charges d'affaires.  The United States, the Republic of Korea, Poland, and several other  countries sent their military attaches.

Present at the podium were Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and  Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Slovakian Deputy  Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Robert Kalinjak, Chief of the  General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces General Milan Mojsilovic,  Kazakh Defense Minister Dauren Kosanov, as well as the Deputy  Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia, the Minister of Defense of  Kyrgyzstan, and the Deputy Minister of Defense of Uzbekistan.