The Azerbaijani authorities have blacklisted Seth Kugel, a New York Times journalist who recently visited Nagorno-Karabakh.

Speaking to the news agency APA, a spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry, Hikmat Hajiyev said that his subsequent article, entitled A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains, misrepresented the situation in what he described as Azerbaijan’s occupied territories. He said it was “disrespectful to the readers of the newspaper and the rights of more than one million Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons.”

In his article, Kugel spoke of a holiday spent in Nagorno-Karabakh, noting, among other things, that despite being a de facto independent state, the country has not been recognized by any member state of the United Nations.