[governance] Rights issues in Azerbaijan / What will CS @ Baku do?

[Katy P]

Is there a source for this that isn't Asbarez? (An Armenian political news
source.)

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Narine Khachatryan <
ms.narine.khachatryan at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> Read what Azerbaijan's President office's  head of Foreign Relations
> Department  told two days ago to Bloomberg, briefly threatening 'to change
> their pro-western stance and political alliance'...Words are unnecessary...
>
>
>
> Azerbaijan Blackmails West
>
> http://asbarez.com/102706/azerbaijan-blackmails-west/
>
> 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.
>
> Azerbaijan wants Europe and the US to pressure Armenia into relinquishing
> the liberated territories of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
>
> 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.
>
> “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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> “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.”
> “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.
>
>
> Regards,
> Narine
>
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