The NKR government allocated 9 million AMD to organize an exhibit at the Milan International Tourism Exhibition now underway in the northern Italian city. Sergey Shahverdyan, who heads the NKR Tourist Board, mentioned at a press conference held today, that there have been no problems at the NKR booth despite attempts by Azerbaijan to protest the presence of Karabakh as an independent country.

"Nobody pays attention any more to all that hysteria. We don’t and neither do the exhibition organizers," Mr. Shahverdyan said. He added that since the RoA wasn’t represented at the exhibition the Karabakh staff had to campaign for Armenia as well.