BAKU. Nov 6 (Interfax) - Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov was invited to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to be presented with a note of protest over a visit by representatives of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic to Russia, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
"On November 6, 2019, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received by the Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov. At the meeting, the MFA's note of protest with regard to the visit of Masis Mayilyan and Lernik Hovhannisyan, the 'representatives' of the illegal regime created in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan currently occupied by Armenia, was handed over to the Russian Ambassador," the ministry said on its website.