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Azerbaijani media nervously responded to the Armenian MFA’s report on the meeting of Armenia's Consul General Karen Grigoryan with Syria's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Badr Al-Din Hassoun in Aleppo. Azerbaijan was particularly indignant at the following statement by the Sheikh: “people's will, not religion is behind the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.”

Azerbaijani media seriously criticized the Grand Mufti of Syria, who, they think, due to Islamic solidarity, should have supported Azerbaijan, not Christian Armenia. More, Vesti.az appealed to Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Syria, but the Embassy’s response did not satisfy the reporters either.

“Regarding the Sheikh’s statement, we assess it positively, because he said that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not religious, and we always repeat this. As to people’s will, we think he meant the Armenian people, and we see nothing surprising about it,” an official at Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Syria said.