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“Ancient Iranian game Polo has been famous also in Armenia and India,” the executive director of the IRI Cultural heritage office Fahrad Nazari has told to IRNA Iranian news agency.

Recently the Hamzeh Ilhani Zadeh, the chairman of IRI polo federation had reported that after the attempt of appropriating the name of Iranian poet Nizami Gyanjavi the Azerbaijani try to do the same with the ancient Iranian game polo and for this reason have already applied officially to UNESCO.

Fahrad Nazari touched upon the above mentioned fact and stated that the ancient Iranian game Polo was spread both in Armenian and in India and added, “Azerbaijan has presented the game Polo to UNESCO with the following formation, “Polo is local game of Nagorno Karabakh”: that is to say Azerbaijan has formed the application so as if Polo has been a game peculiar for Nagorno Karabakh region and it has then been spread to other regions as well.”

There are many disagreements between the Iranian and Azerbaijani relations recently. According to Iranian side, Azerbaijan presents not only the poet Nizami Gyanjavi as an Azerbaijani but also the musical instruments as well as polo sport game. All these cause dissatisfaction among the Iranian authorities and artists.

Polo is a group sport game which is played with rods and balls. The participants are horsemen who are divided into two groups and who try to conquer the gates of the rival by the help of special rods and a ball.

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