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<p>The UK Government is concerned by the recent detentions of Azerbaijani human rights
activists Mr Rauf Mirkadirov, Dr Leyla Yunus and Mr Arif Yunusov. All three individuals
have worked tirelessly to promote valuable people-to-people dialogue between Azerbaijanis
and Armenians, where little contact exists between these peoples since the start of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict twenty years ago. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and our Embassy in Baku have publicly expressed their concern about these detentions
and continue to monitor the cases closely. In a statement on 6 May, the Minister of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury
(Mr Lidington), also expressed his concern regarding an increasingly worrying trend
of apparently politically motivated detentions occurring in Azerbaijan.</p><p> </p>
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