Azerbaijan protests Karabakh's participation in ConIFA world football cup
BAKU. Feb 6 (Interfax) - The Association of the Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) has expressed its protest over the expected participation of the national team of the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" ("NKR") in the first world soccer championship among the unrecognized states, the AFFA said in a press release on Thursday.
A letter containing the protest has been sent to the Confederation of Independent Football Federations (ConIFA), which organizes the first world soccer premiership among the unrecognized states in Sweden on June 1-8.
Soccer players from Nagorno-Karabakh have also been invited to take part in the tournament.
The self-proclaimed "NKR" was created on an Azerbaijani territory occupied by Armenia and it has not been recognized by a single state or international organization, the AFFA said in its letter to ConIFA. AFFA has strongly condemned the participation in the first world championship among the unrecognized states of the team representing the occupied Azeri territories, and has expressed its protest over it.
Due to the tournament taking place in Sweden, this country's Football Federation has sent a letter to FIFA (International Federation of Association Football), the statement said.
