BRITISH MIDLAND AIRWAYS PUTS UNDER DOUBT TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF AZERBAIJAN

Bmi (British Midland Airways), the second largest airline at London Heathrow, operating flights from England to many destinations, including Azerbaijan, posted a map of Azerbaijan on its website, “forgetting” to indicate Nakhchivan as an Azerbaijani exclave sharing border with Iran and Armenia. Moreover, Azerbaijan was placed under the category “Asia”, whilst considering Georgia and Armenia to be “Europe”. This is completely wrong as the entire South Caucasus (as a whole) is treated as one region and regarded as part of Europe and no divisions can be made within this small region.
Also in the Voyager logbook the administrative borders of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are marked within the state borders, creating the wrong impression as if Nagorno-Karabakh is an independent state. Meanwhile, it is completely wrong as Nagorno-Karabakh is an internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan, and the self-proclaimed so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” is not recognized by any country, even by Armenia. The U.K. government has also unequivocally recognized Nagorno-Karabakh to be an unalienable part of the Azerbaijan Republic. The administrative borders of Georgia’s similar breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are not marked at all, nor are Moldova’s separatist region of Prednestrovye. And what makes the map completely confusing is the fact that Kosovo, whose independence has been already recognized by many EU countries, including the U.K., is not shown on the map and in Voyager logbook it still goes as part of Serbia.