Is there a source for this that isn't Asbarez? (An Armenian political news source.)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Narine Khachatryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Read what Azerbaijan's <span style="line-height:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">President office's </span>head of <span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial" lang="EN-US">Foreign
Relations Department told two days ago to Bloomberg, briefly threatening 'to change their pro-western stance and political alliance'...Words are unnecessary... </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#981a1d" lang="EN-US">Azerbaijan Blackmails West</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:#fdfdfd;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://asbarez.com/102706/azerbaijan-blackmails-west/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://asbarez.com/102706/azerbaijan-blackmails-west/</span></a><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#981a1d" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">BAKU—A senior
Azeri official told Bloomberg Businessweek that Azerbaijan would rethink what
he called its “pro-Western” stance and align itself with “a new bloc” if the
West does not amp up its support, especially vis-à-vis the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Azerbaijan wants
Europe and the US to pressure Armenia into relinquishing the liberated
territories of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">In what was
clearly a move to blackmail the West, Novruz Mammadov, head of the presidential
office’s foreign-relations department told Bloomberg Businessweek that
Azerbaijan had been invited to join another political alliance, without
elaborating.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">“We aren’t paying
attention to those proposals for now. But if it continues like this, we may
consider it in five to 10 years. We’re expecting help from the West on the
Karabakh issue,” Mammedov told Bloomberg in an interview in Baku.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Mammadov also
rebuked Israel for allegedly breaking an agreement to keep a recent $1.6
billion arms deal with Azerbaijan a secret. Israeli defense officials announced
the deal earlier this spring, with Azeri officials confirming the reports. The
Azeri officials also noted that the weapons would not be used against Iran, as
speculated by Western sources, but rather to bolster its abilities against
Armenians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Last month Foreign
Policy magazine and other Western media outlets reported that Azerbaijan had
turned into an Israeli spy zone and that Baku was allowing Israel to use its
airports for possible airstrikes against Iran. Azerbaijan has vehemently
rejected that assertion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">“We’re the only
secular Muslim nation in the world that’s tied its destiny with the West,”
Mammadov told Bloomberg. He estimated that about 35 percent of all NATO
supplies to Afghanistan transit Azerbaijan. “But we haven’t seen a positive
attitude in return.”</span></p>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:15.6pt">“Iran’s telling
us: Why are you selling your oil to the West? You should sever your relations
with the U.S. and Israel because they’re our enemies,” Mammadov told Bloomberg.</span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Narine</div>
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