Monday 5 May 2008

Azerbaijan Angered by Nestle Cereal Gift

The country of Azerbaijan has become so angered by a free gift from a Nestle cereal that Nestle has withdrawn the cereal.

The free gift in question is a CD-Rom that carried information about different countries from across the globe. Unfortunately for Swiss based Nestle the information on Azerbaijan was in reference to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The information said that Azerbaijan started a war with Armenia in the early 1990's and that Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Armenia.

Azerbaijan is saying that Nestle is supporting Armenia and have called for all its citizens to boycott Nestle products!

Nestle have given a formal apology but this seems to have done nothing to quell the issue.

Who ever thought that a simple free gift with a cereal box can cause such outrage to the point that a cereal company is being accused of joining forces with one country over another!

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