"I want to stress that I consider the above-mentioned incident as a new provocative action against Azerbaijan and Lithuania," the ambassador said in a comment sent to BNS on Friday.
"I am confident that my real colleague, Lithuanian ambassador in Hungary knows that nowadays, relations between the countries based on fundamental norms and principles of international law and does not have any alternatives," he said.
In his words, analyzing the recordings, he came to a conclusion that such a conversation would be impossible between two high-ranking diplomats and he couldn't believe that the Lithuanian ambassador to Hungary could express a different position from the official position of the Republic of Lithuania regarding the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan and change the name of Azerbaijani territory."
"And his approach to the conflict based on religion values as in the Middle Ages concerns us," Ambassador Mammadzada said.
On July 8, recordings of three phone conversations (4 parts in total) were published on youtube.com. The conversations allegedly involve Lithuanian diplomats. In one of the conversations, diplomats talk about Armenian-Azeri relations.
"I am supportive of those who lead Armenians. They are also Christians and Stalin regime made them suffer. Their territories were also reshaped just the way it was with us. And I support them. In a very passive way but..." a man, identified as Lithuanian Ambassador to Hungary Renatas Juška, says in one of the recordings.
"And from the religious or just common human point of view, Armenia seems closer, though they are also the rotten ones. So it depends. For me it's the most important thing that all of them stay aboard in the wake of the summit," the other participant of the conversation, named as Zenonas Kumetaitis, deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Eastern Neighborhood Policy Department, allegedly aid.
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently carrying out an investigation into the incident which Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linkevičius earlier called "information provocation".
