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Posted 02 May 2017 - 01:23 PM

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Posted 10 May 2017 - 08:50 AM

Aliyev Family Plunders
        Azerbaijan’s Oil Revenue
        By Harut Sassounian
        Publisher, The California Courier
 
The government of Azerbaijan allocates its multi-billion dollar oil and gas revenue in four ways: 1) Bribery; 2) Theft by Pres. Aliyev’s family and his cronies; 3) Military purchases; and 4) Other budgetary matters. No wonder the majority of the people in Azerbaijan live in abject poverty, despite the billions of petrodollars earned by Aliyev’s autocracy.
Last week, we covered Azerbaijan’s bribery at the Council of Europe and throughout the world. This week, we present examples of how large amounts of Azerbaijan’s wealth are stolen by the Aliyev family and members of the ruling clan. A U.S. State Department report on human rights referred to the “pervasive corruption” of Azerbaijan’s increasingly authoritarian regime. Transparency International, in its 2016 global survey of corruption, ranked Azerbaijan among the most corrupt nations -- 123rd out of 176 countries.
Last month, reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia revealed in her website that the three largest clients of Pilatus Bank in Malta are from Azerbaijan: Kamaladdin Heydarov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Emergency Situations, followed by the young son and daughter of Pres. Aliyev, whose names are Heydar Aliyev and Leyla Aliyeva.
Galizia reported: “Heydar Aliyev [President’s son] had first tried to open an account at the Bank of Valetta [in Malta], but was refused on the grounds that he is a major politically exposed person from one of the most corrupt countries, and a serious money-laundering risk.” She further revealed: “60% of Pilatus Bank’s deposits belong to Azerbaijani politically exposed persons.” We can therefore safely assume that the amount of money deposited by these three Azeris is in the millions of dollars!
Interestingly, the owner of Pilatus Bank is an Iranian by the name of Seyed Ali Sadr Hashemenijad who “was caught on camera removing bags of documents from his bank’s premises last Thursday night [April 20, 2017], accompanied by the bank’s risk manager, Antoniella Gauci.”
Unfortunately, the Maltese bank is not the only one where the Aliyevs and their clan have stashed tons of money. There are scores of off-shore companies set up by the Aliyevs and their intermediaries to launder large amounts of cash difficult to trace back to the leaders of Azerbaijan.
There are so many financial scandals involving the Aliyevs that it is hard to pinpoint a specific one; but one of their biggest scandals involves the purchase of luxury real estate in Dubai for $75 million by the three Aliyev children, according to the Washington Post. Heydar Aliyev, the then 11-year-old son of Pres. Aliyev, bought nine waterfront mansions for $44 million in 2009! His two sisters, Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva, bought several more mansions for an additional $31 million. These properties were paid for “upfront.” Where do children of their young age get $75 million given that they have no income and their father Pres. Aliyev’s annual salary is only $228,000!
The Washington Post article exposing these scandalous details explained that the “rush to move assets overseas, often with scant regard for returns, is a common feature of many oil-producing nations, where corrupt elites seek to ensure that their wealth is safe just in case political winds at home change.”
OCCRP’s website (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) includes dozens of articles about examples of major corruption in Azerbaijan. In 2012, OCCRP named Pres. Ilham Aliyev its “Person of the Year” for his “links to crimes and corruption.” OCCRP reported that Mehriban Aliyeva, Pres. Aliyev’s wife, is “owner, director or shareholder of a web of offshore companies that were reportedly used by the family to conduct lucrative business dealings worth many millions of dollars.”
Indeed, Pres. Aliyev and his family own a multitude of expensive properties around the world. OCCRP reported that a building in Bucharest, Romania, purchased for $7.3 million, became the headquarters of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, named after Pres. Ilham Aliyev’s father who ruled Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. The Foundation is run by the family of Pres. Aliyev. According to OCCRP, the purchase of this building involved “offshore transactions, links to corrupt officials and organized crime, insider deals and a peculiar cult of personality for a dead leader.” The Aliyevs also own expensive buildings and houses in London (worth at least $25 million), Moscow (worth tens of millions of dollars), Dubai, and the Czech Republic.
Finally, Pres. Aliyev’s daughters Leyla and Arzu own some of the most luxurious hotels in Baku, according to OCCRP, including the Four Seasons, Sheraton, and the Marriott, among others. An Azerbaijani real estate expert told OCCRP that “the high-end Baku hotels owned or closely connected to the family are valued at $10 billion.”
OCCRP concluded that the Aliyev dynasty has been involved in “numerous secretive business operations across several continents in recent years! Using offshore companies and middlemen, the First Family took over considerable chunks of the Azerbaijani economy -- including gold mines, tourism, telecom companies and banks -- while buying up luxury properties in various European and Gulf states.”


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Posted 10 May 2017 - 08:57 AM

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May 9 2017
 
 
Armenophobia in Azerbaijan: Causes and Effects cj2hht48j23l7ojxwsuhhinuh-elibegova.47.0By Anzhela Elibegova
 
 
 
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Armenophobia rages in Azerbaijan unabated. While this statement might be a foregone conclusion, the causes and effects of such an appalling phenomenon need to be critically understood.

Armenians are the perfect external enemy for Azerbaijani authorities who use the current situation to aim their propaganda machine in the necessary direction, falsify history and disseminate Armenophobia in their country. The Azerbaijani authorities are diligently working in this direction. The question is, why?

The image of an external enemy is usually created by the political elite in order to internally mobilize society and oppress existing domestic political powers and movements directed against the very same elite. A number of psychologists claim that in the face of real or alleged threat, the population displays obedience to the leader who has the status of the “father,” “protector,” or even of the “traditional leader.”

Azerbaijan is a classic example of such policies. All socio-economic relations in the country are directly reflected on the frontier, reminding Azerbaijani citizens that if not for Aliyev and his “entourage,” the “enemy,” the Armenians, would have slaughtered the Azerbaijani people in their homes. Children are taught this in fairy tales, adults are regularly instructed by mass media and officials.*

Undoubtedly, Armenophobia in Azerbaijani society is imposed by the authorities. Yet, it would be hard to impose such attitudes without fertile ground. For all intents and purposes, the Azerbaijani people are not opposed to “hate speech” and indulge in it with enviable diligence.

But how does such a mechanism work? Primarily the signal comes from the head of state, the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. To understand such an elaborate mechanism, some of the president’s official speeches over the last few years should be cited. The speeches are accessible on the official presidential website. However, for users with Armenian IP addresses, access to the website has been blocked. It seems the Azerbaijani side is not aware of the existence of VPNs and many other useful programs assisting in avoiding such a blockade and staying undetected.

 

The dissemination of Armenophobia looks like the following: Excerpts from President Aliyev’s speeches:

“We have to be honest and acknowledge that Armenia simply carries formal existence and is artificially marked on the world map as an independent state. Armenia is a dependent state, which is not capable of determining its own future.”

“All our historical monuments, statues, mosques, and cemeteries are ruined by the Armenians.”

“Armenian fascism has inflicted a large amount of causalities. Even today many innocent people are suffering from Armenian policies.”

“We will isolate Armenia further from all the projects in the region. We are to strengthen our military forces.”

“The way it is going, Armenia will soon perish from the world map.”

“One of the decisive factors in the world today is military force. The main principle of political distribution is “Might makes right” […]. I have mentioned it on several occasions, and will repeat myself once again, if you do not want to die, free our lands.”

“The war is still persisting. The first stage of the war is over. If Armenia does not want the second stage to break out, it has to draw appropriate conclusions and voluntarily free the occupied lands. Only under such conditions is there is hope for an independent Armenian state.”

“Unfortunately, the nationalists, who have seized power in Armenia, have waged an insidious and dishonorable war against Azerbaijan. They have displayed a great sense of ingratitude towards the Azerbaijani people, who were feeding and helping them for long decades." 

 

Once the president has signaled the dissemination of a particular idea or has commented on “Armenianhood” in general, the second echelon of power - ministers, deputies, and other officials - loyally follow the president: 

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“We have to seek revenge. To seek revenge for the victims of the Khojaly Massacre. We have to seek revenge for the blood of our shahids (martyrs).”

“There are powers that extremely disapprove of us. We may divide those into a few certain groups. In the first place, our mortal enemy is the global Armenian nation and all the corrupted, hypocritical, and treacherous politicians under Armenian influence.”

Zakir Hasanov, Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan

Defense Minister Hasanov meticulously cites the president in virtually all of his speeches. The president’s words and statements are a call to action for everyone else. As the minister claims, “The president’s demand that ‘All the Armenians have to free our lands. If Armenian soldiers do not want to die, they should not step into Agdam or Fizuli,’ should serve as a guide for action for everyone else. This is what the Azerbaijani people expect and is the Supreme Commander’s directive.”

During the Four Day War in 2016, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry issued the following decree: “The Minister of Defense has ordered the preparation to use all heavy weaponry at the disposal of the Armed Forces, including missile-artillery forces to attack Khankendi and other settlements on the territory of occupied Azerbaijan.” Khankendi is the Azerbaijani version of Stepanakert and Azerbaijanis consider Artsakh ‘occupied Azerbaijan.’ This statement by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense is a clear violation of Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions, Article 52 which provides for the protection of civilian objects during wartime.

 

Ali Hasanov, Head of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Social and Political Department

“Over the last 200 years, Armenians propagated the politics of genocide against the Azerbaijani people, they actively encouraged the policy of the displacement of the Azerbaijani people from their original homeland along with using brutal violence.”

Ogtay Asadov, Chairman of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan

“During the last century Armenians violently massacred over two million Azerbaijani people and Turks. Armenian nationalists are the ones responsible for all these murders.” ​

Elman Mammadov, Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan:

“It is not clear why Turkey tolerates Armenian people on its lands. What is the reason Turkey does not require Armenians to free their lands? Turkey should be a state without Armenians  […] If Turkey and Azerbaijan unite, they may wipe Armenia off the map of the world  Armenians should beware of this  […]. We urge Turkey to expel Armenian from its territory so that they may make

Ziyafat Asgarov, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security:

“The majority of Armenians is well aware that the so-called ‘genocide’ has never actually happened.”

Hafiz Hajiyev, Leader of the New Musavat Party:

“Our sons in Armenia will set the nuclear plant in Armenia to explode so that no Armenian is left in that territory.

 

After disseminating and encouraging anti-Armenian hysteria, Azerbaijani officials pass the baton to various public figures and opinion makers. 

Allahshukur Pashazade, Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus:

“We have undertaken all the possible measures to resolve the conflict in a peaceful manner. […] Nonetheless we do not see the result of all these meetings. Dishonesty and betrayal are rooted in Armenian genes. They have shared meals and bread with us, and now they publicly blame and accuse us.”

“We have to seek revenge for our shahid’s blood”

Hasif Hurbanovo, Chairman of the Global Congress of Azerbaijanis, expressed his views about Armenians during the Azerbaijani-Turkish conference titled, “The Past and Present Relationship Among Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia” held in the Turkish city of Izmir in May 2016:

There are malware and antivirus programs in computers. The companies developing malware programs develop antiviruses as well. The developers of the malware program ‘Armenia’ should also launch its antivirus. If we want to achieve the goal of world peace, we have to get rid of the virus of Armenia.”

Kazim Abdullayev, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan,

The following is a passage from a recent interview with Kazim Abdullayev, an actor mostly famous as the national “Santa Claus,” a role he has coveted for more than 30 years:

- Dear Kazim, imagine you light a Christmas tree and it turns out it is a really magical one. Do you have a cherished dream to make a wish for?

- Oh, there are many dreams that I would like to accomplish, but in the first place I would freeze Armenians and free Karabakh from them.

 

Rafik Aliyev, Ph.D. candidate and professor

“Our neighbors, Armenians, absorb the virus of national-chauvinism with their mother’s milk and this defines a credo for their whole life.”

Professor Ilgar Aliyev, President of the Azerbaijan’s National Academy of Sciences: 

“Armenianhood is a unique, evil, and hateful phenomenon.”

 

Habil Aliyev, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Azerbaijani newspaper “Gundelik Baku:”

“Armenians are my eternal enemies. Wherever I see an Armenian, I will cut their tongues and publicly denounce them. Even if I am torn apart, I will always abhor them […]. If the war breaks out again, I will not spare even children.”   

 

Murad Dadashov, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan:

We communicate with a highly unhealthy society. Honestly, I have always sympathized with our officials and representatives who have to communicate with the Armenian side.”

 

Mubariz Ahmedoglu, Chairman of the Center for Political Innovation and Technologies 

“Armenians should not inhabit Nagorno-Karabakh […]. I am not a fascist. I think Armenians should not inhabit Nagorno-Karabakh for reasons of security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, as sooner or later they will initiate secessionist inclinations.”

 

Farid Teymurhanlu, Azerbaijani journalist: 

“The definition, the concept of the word ‘Armenian’ is clear for everyone, expect the Armenians themselves of course. It is vileness, cowardice and betrayal. Probably, when God was creating them, he was not in the mood and endowed  them with the lowest human qualities.” ​

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The Azerbaijani website Haqqin.az published an article about those stores in Baku that were selling T-shirts with Kim Kardashian’s image. They were being sold in the markets of Sadarak and Bin. The website urged everyone to stop wearing such “shameful” clothing, asking whether the Azerbaijani people knew the Armenian origin of Kardashian. 

The Role of the Media

Reinforcing these sentiments and the final stage of Armenophobia is the role mass media takes upon itself.

 

Oxu.Az: “Recently Baku markets received a new delivery of condensed milk. The information about the product is actually translated into Armenian. It appears that the delivery was intended for the Armenian market. Our national markets display the given product for sale without even the slightest concern.”

Vesti.az: “It is commonly acknowledged, that the Armenian church stands behind the idea of terrorism. The Armenian Diaspora provides the main sponsorship, whereas the executives are Armenian political organizations.” 

Modern.az: “Armenian women inflict imminent harm. They are like a ticking mortal time bomb. The Armenian imperial strategists have devised and currently are executing the plan to exterminate Turks through genetics and intermarriage.” 

Gundelik Baku: “Department of Homeland Security has to establish an independent agency and assign the investigation of Armenian blood within the Azerbaijani population. For instance, parents who want to marry their offsprings, may send an inquiry to the agency to reveal whether their future relatives have Armenian genes or any Armenian relatives. Only at that point we may avoid intermarriages and the risk of being infected with the Armenian blood.”

We may treat the given situation humorously, ignore it, or even get into polemics, yet the fact is that Azerbaijan has already given birth to a generation, which has not seen Armenians; a generation, which has not lived or communicated with Armenians beyond social networks. This generation, in its turn, cannot protect its children against the propaganda of Armenophobia, which has penetrated all spheres of Azerbaijani society.

Unfortunately, this means that coming generations also will not be given the chance to develop mutual understanding unless there is an influential power capable of initiating the painful process of “denazification.”

I would like to finish the review with Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov's question to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during a recent interview“Considering the extremely tense, in fact, explosive relationship between Azerbaijan and Armenia, is there a guarantee that a person with an Armenian surname who checks in a hotel in Azerbaijan will not be slaughtered?”

Indeed, under the extreme level of Armenophobia in Azerbaijan, cultivated and imposed by President Aliyev, there are unfortunately no guarantees.

 

*More information on this is available in the book “Armenophobia in Azerbaijan” (www.stophatespeech.net).

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 10:07 AM

AZCentral.com
May 16 2017
 
 
My Turn: Don Shooter's anti-Armenian propaganda
Yervant Baltajian, AZ
 

Arizona State Representative Don Shooter has effectively become the spokesperson of a genocide-denying dictatorship that executed and mutilated Christian civilians just last year.
 
Rep. Shooter visited Azerbaijan, ranked the fifth most repressive nation in the world, on all-expense-paid junkets. He received high-dollar gifts from the country infamous for its human rights abuses and militant hostility toward Armenian Christians.
 
The latter want to live in peace, free from an oppressive government trying to wipe their people and culture off the map. Rep. Shooter prefers his lavish friends’ alternative facts.

I write this as an Armenian-American and Phoenix resident. Arizona is home to a lively Armenian community; here we work, pay taxes, raise families and worship in our churches. On April 24 at the state Capitol, we held our commemoration of the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, where 1.5 million Armenians were marched from their homes, starved, massacred and crucified as part the Turkish government’s orchestrated plan. A crime Turkey and Azerbaijan are working overtime to cover up and deny. 

Azberbaijan hailed as a country of 'tolerance'? 

Despite the facts of the horror taking place in Azerbaijan and its sister nation Turkey, on Feb. 23, Rep. Shooter presented an absurd, inaccurate proclamation and praised the brutal dictatorship of Azerbaijan — which the State Department called an “oil-rich mafia state.” With the Azerbaijan general consul at his side, Rep. Shooter touted that country's “tolerance.”
 
Worse than that, Rep. Shooter brazenly stated alternative facts that Azerbaijan’s small-landlocked neighbor, Armenia, which suffered a true genocide of 1.5 million deaths for being a Christian minority, was instead the perpetrator of genocide.
 
The hate-filled, anti-Armenian propaganda stems from several hundred civilian casualties during the 1990s, when indigenous Armenians in Artsakh, known as Nagorno-Karabakh during the Soviet years, were protecting their families, homes, ancient lands and the world’s oldest churches (Armenia was the first Christian nation) from Azerbaijan’s army.

Assault on Armenian Christians, churches 

The 1990s Nagorno-Karabakh war, which Azerbaijan launched and lost in order to maintain Joseph Stalin’s illicit decision to expropriate part of the already dwindled Christian Armenian homeland to Islamic Azerbaijan, victimized countless people on both sides. Azeri civilians did die in Khojaly, but for Azerbaijan and Rep. Shooter to cherry-pick one war episode and baselessly proclaim it "genocide" deliberately misrepresents the central cause of the conflict, which is Azerbaijan’s staunch determination to wipe out indigenous Armenians.

Azerbaijan’s state-sponsored hate was first applied in Nakhichevan, another Armenian region expropriated to Soviet Azerbaijan, which was completely cleansed out of its indigenous Arme-nian population by the 1980s. Artsakh had no choice but to fight to avoid Nakhichevan’s fate.

Azerbaijan continues its genocidal policies. It has already destroyed countless Armenian Christian churches and monuments, including sending in its army in 2005 to demolish the world’s largest medieval cross-stone field (the Djulfa cemetery in Nakhichevan), in an attempt to erase 2,000 years of Christian history and culture.

 

In April 2016, Azerbaijan launched and lost yet another war, this time committing ISIS-like war crimes against Armenian civilians in Talish and soldiersduring Azerbaijan’s ceasefire violation.

Shooter unresponsive to brought-up concerns 

These facts were conveniently left out of Rep. Shooter’s proclamation as well as from Azerbaijan’s state-controlled media that reported his repetition of Azerbaijan’s alternative facts as breaking news. 
 
When Arizona residents called Rep. Shooter’s office to set the record straight on his blatantly false proclamation, those calls were unreturned.
 
Genocide denials and spreading fake news about a people trying to live in peace in their homeland is heartbreaking at best and complicit at worse.
 
This leaves one to ask: does Rep. Shooter work for the people of Arizona or the dictator of Azerbaijan?

Yervant Baltajian, who is married with two children, is a Phoenix resident and a small-business owner. He served in the U.S. Air Force. Email him at ybaltajian@yahoo.com.

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 02:42 PM

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Posted 25 May 2017 - 09:50 AM

Aravot, Armenia
May 24 2017




Azerbaijan kills soldiers accused of spying for the Republic of Armenia

Politician Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan touched upon the recent
sensational spy scandal in Azerbaijan. Let us remind, that about four
dozen soldiers were arrested, accused of spying for the Armenian side.
“They were killed in unknown circumstances by law enforcement bodies,
and were buried in close coffins, without any explanations what had
happened to them”, the politician informed about the latest news
available in Azerbaijani media.

He also noted that the Defence Minister of Azerbaijan and the Chief of
the General Staff are in competition trying to neutralize each other’s
personnel by accusing them of spying in favor of the Republic of
Armenia. “There is also some information that the arrested officers
were planning an armed rebellion”. Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan believes
that the arrest of the officers is also connected with the fact that
they refused to participate in the border incidents provoked by
Azerbaijan in January-February.

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Posted 04 June 2017 - 09:49 AM

The fool is losing his mind, not that he had any brain!

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June 2 2017
 
 
Aliyev Changes Staff: What's Happening in Azerbaijan?
  • Naira Hayrumyan, Political Commentator 
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The Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev has suddenly changed his staff and 6 assistants. Fuad Aleskerov has been appointed as assistant for military affairs and law enforcement agencies.

 

Aliyev’s nervousness is evidence to his stalemate due to his policy and geopolitical developments.

 

Azerbaijan’s central bank has declared default, Azerbaijan has appeared amid a scandal in OSCE where an investigation is underway into the case of bribing PACE members by Azerbaijani officials.

 

Besides, Azerbaijan has appeared amid another scandal. The Georgian president has called to investigate the abduction of the Azerbaijani journalist in Georgia and illegal border crossing. Georgians are protesting against the actions of the Azerbaijani special services.

 

The so-called Peace Platform has failed which Azerbaijan tried to conceal its destructive stance in the talks on Karabakh. The OSCE Minsk Group has bluntly blamed Azerbaijan for ceasefire breaches. The foreign ministry of Armenia has called for applying sanctions on Azerbaijan.

 

Aliyev is worried and is taking incomprehensible steps. The Armenian military say the Azerbaijani army is inventing targets, hitting them and then reporting hitting Armenian positions.

 

Yesterday the International Crisis Group published a report on the Karabakh settlement which highlights the dissatisfaction of Azerbaijan with Aliyev’s policy. It is said that some circles in Azerbaijan demand implementation of the militaristic “triumphant” intentions Aliyev has been speaking about for many years. There is an opinion that Aliyev has hardly been able to suppress pressure.
 

 

 


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Posted 28 June 2017 - 09:13 AM

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June 27 2017
 
Azerbaijan Employs Four Lobbying and PR firms
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BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN

After identifying the lobbying and PR firms hired by the government of Turkey, we now report on four similar firms hired by Azerbaijan.

By observing Azerbaijan’s devious approach to foreign relations, I have noticed the following pattern:

1. Whatever actions Armenian-Americans take for their causes, Azerbaijan seeks to emulate and counter them in the United States through its hired companies. Pres. Aliyev in a 2013 speech stated that Azerbaijan’s “main enemy is the Armenian lobby.” He also stated: “the Armenian lobby day and night is trying to slander Azerbaijan, to undermine its authority. They have broad financial resources. They are closely connected with the authorities of their countries where they donate to the legislators under the name of ‘lobbying.’ But, in fact, it is a bribe. Thus the Armenian lobby is at the forefront of an organized campaign against us.” In his lengthy diatribe, Pres. Aliyev falsely ascribes to Armenians the persistent bribing campaign carried out by his own government around the world.

2. Azerbaijan follows the footsteps of Turkey’s more experienced officials in its policies on Armenia and Armenian issues, including the denial of the Armenian Genocide and accusing Armenians for the crimes committed by Azerbaijan and Turkey. Regrettably, Azerbaijan has been also emulating Turkey in the repression of its own citizens, making it difficult to determine which of the two countries is more autocratic.

3. The government of Azerbaijan, realizing its tarnished image in the West due to widespread human rights violations, has hired PR and lobbying firms to whitewash its negative reputation. One would expect a regime that is so concerned about its poor image overseas that it would improve its human rights record at home, so it does not need to waste millions of dollars on American firms to carry out the impossible task of cleansing its image. In his 2013 speech, Pres. Aliyev wishfully described Azerbaijan as a “modern, progressive, open, tolerant country.” Who can be fooled by such outright lies?

The government of Azerbaijan has hired dozens of PR and lobbying firms over the years. However, at this time, it employs only four such firms.

1. Podesta Group, Inc., is paid $45,000 a month by Azerbaijan to “research and analyze issues of concern to [Azerbaijan]; counsel [Azerbaijan] on U.S. policies of concern, activities in Congress and the executive branch, and developments on the U.S. political scene generally; and maintain contact, if necessary, with members of Congress and their staff and executive branch officials, media and non-governmental organizations.”

2. SOCAR USA (U.S. subsidiary of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) pays Roberti White LLC $125,000 to “research and analyze issues of concern to [Azerbaijan]; counsel [Azerbaijan] on U.S. policies of concern, activities in Congress and the Executive branch, and developments on the U.S. political scene generally; and maintain contact, as necessary, with members of Congress and their staff, executive branch officials, members of the press, and non-governmental organizations.” It is not surprising that the description of the functions performed by Roberti White for SOCAR USA is identical to the ones performed by Podesta Group, Inc., for the government of Azerbaijan.

3. BGR Government Affairs, LLC is paid $50,000 a month by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Washington, D.C., to provide “strategic guidance and counsel with regard to government affairs and public relations activity within the U.S. This may include relevant outreach to U.S. government officials, non-government organizations, members of the media and other individuals within the U.S.”

4. The Tool Shed Group LLC, originally headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, now relocated to Parker, Colorado, was hired by the Consulate of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles in 2009 for a period of four months for a flat fee of $35,000. The Tool Shed Group now also represents the Republic of Azerbaijan. Since then the contract has been renewed every six months. Tool Shed is led by Jason Katz, former Director of Public Relations and Public Affairs for the American Jewish Committee. Tool Shed provides “consulting services to the Consulate, including organizing briefings/lectures; facilitating meetings with community members, elected and appointed officials, and business leaders; write and disseminate op-eds.”

Recently, the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles disseminated to all Consulates in Los Angeles, and probably many others, a color brochure entitled, “Nagorno-Karabakh: Background and Facts.” This 16-page propaganda piece, full of misrepresentations about Artsakh, most likely was prepared by The Tool Shed Group, Azerbaijan’s and its consulate’s PR and lobbying firm. At the end of page 16, there is a note which states: “Published by the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles.” It is interesting that this sentence does not indicate who prepared the brochure, but simply who published it!

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Posted 05 July 2017 - 09:06 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
July 4 2017
 
 
Azerbaijan one of the cradles of international terrorism – David Babayan
 
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Azerbaijan has long been known for its support for terrorist groups, Spokesperson for Artsakh President says.

“This is a well-known fact to everyone, especially the special services of the countries, which immediately deal with the Islamic State and the threat of terrorism,” the President’s Spokesman David Babayan told Public Radio of Armenia.

The comments come after the report by the Bulgarian Trud newspaper, revealing that at least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines (an Azerbaijani state-run company) flights have transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3 years.

Davaid Babayan said “Azerbaijan established ties with terrorism at the time it gained independence.”
He reminded that “Chechen militants were getting treated in Azerbaijan during the first and second Chechen wars. It was also providing medical services to Mujahideen during the Afghan war and the Grey Wolves Turkish extremist group, as well as other groupings, which were fighting against Artsakh during the first Artsakh war and the four-day war in April.

The Spokesman insists that “reporting the facts is not enough” and insists that the revelations should be followed by concrete actions.

“The international community has a lot to do here. The international community should take measures,” he said, adding that “we often see adverse developments instead.” “They entrust Baku to host first European Games, the Formula 1, a number of forums and conferences instead of taking anti-terrorist measures against the country,” David Babayan noted.

According to him,  “the developments are the logical outcome of the world’s silence in response to Aliyev’s statement on the intention to down the civilian planes flying between Stepanakert and Yerevan.”

“An evil grows into epidemics if not uprooted at the beginning. Azerbaijan is one of the countries spreading the epidemics, one of the cradles of international terrorism.”

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Posted 05 July 2017 - 09:07 AM

news.am, Armenia
July 3 2017
 
 
Bulgarian newspaper: Azerbaijani Silk Way Airlines transports contraband weapons
21:41, 03.07.2017
 
 
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Azerbaijani Silk Way cargocompany and air forces transported weapons under the cover of diplomatic flights, Bulgarian newspaper Trud reports.

The author of the investigation, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, presented the photos of Grad rockets transported by Silk Way and found at Al Nusra warehouse in liberated Aleppo.

For several years Silk Way and the Azerbaijani air forces requested clearance for diplomatic flights (not subject to checks) and transported thousands of tons of weapons by them, the newspaper writes.

The consignor was the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, the consignees being the Afghani police and the Republican Guards of Congo. However, the weapons appeared in Iraq and Syria. Major customers of the flights were US, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The Bulgarian MFA, which provides the necessary clearance for diplomatic flights, helped the Azerbaijani side, the newspaper notes. Copies of relevant documents are attached to the article.  

A user under the nickname Anonymous Bulgaria sent to Trud newspaper the correspondence between the Bulgarian MFA and Azerbaijani Embassy in Sofia with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, etc.

Silk Way Airlines offered diplomatic flights to private companies and arms manufacturers from the US, Balkans, and Israel, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, the military forces of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan and of Sweden in Iraq, and finally US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The airline company transported thousand of tons of weapons for them.

They made technical landings with stays varying from a few hours to up to a day in intermediary locations without any logical reasons (they didn’t need to refuel the planes).

According to international agreements, clearance for overflight or landing is provided for military aircraft, whereas Silk Way has no such rights, their aircraft being civil. Thus, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry sent instructions to its embassies in Bulgaria and a number of other European countries to request diplomatic clearance for Silk Way Airlines flights. 

The responsible authorities of many countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Turkey, Germany, UK, Greece, etc.) turned a blind eye to what was being transported by the diplomatic flights.

Some of the weapons that Azerbaijan carried on diplomatic flights were used by its military in Nagorno-Karabakh against Armenia. In 2016, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of using white phosphorus. Armenia denied the allegations. Interestingly enough, according to the documents of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Sofia, white phosphorus munitions were carried on a diplomatic flight via Baku in 2015

Among the main customers of the “diplomatic flights for weapons” service provided by Silk Way Airlines were American companies. The common element in these cases is that they all supplied non-US standard weapons; hence, it would be logical to suppose that the weapons were not used by the US forces.

Trud checked the register of federal contracts and found out that over the last 3 years American companies were awarded $1 billion contracts in total under a special US government program for non-US standard weapon supplies. All of them used Silk Way Airlines for the transport of weapons. Below are a few examples:

On 12 May 2015 an aircraft of Azerbaijan Air Forces carried 7,9 tons of PG-7V and 10 tons of PG-9V to the supposed destination via the route Burgas (Bulgaria)-Incirlik (Turkey)-Burgas-Nasosny (Azerbaijan). The consignor was the American company Purple Shovel, and the consignee – the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. According to the documents, however, the military cargo was offloaded at Incirlik military base and never reached the consignee. The weapons were sold to Purple Shovel by Alguns, Bulgaria, and manufactured by Bulgaria’s VMZ military plant.

According to the federal contracts registry, in December of 2014 USSOCOM signed a $26.7 million contract with Purple Shovel. Bulgaria was indicated as the country of origin of the weapons.

Another U.S. contractor involved in the same program for non-US standard military supplies is Orbital ATK. This company received $250 million over just the past two years alone. Information as to what type of weapons and to whom those weapons were supplied is classified.

According to the documents, Orbital ATK transported weapons on 6 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights in July and August of 2015 flying the route Baku (Azerbaijan)-Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)-Baku-Kabul (Afghanistan). The weapons were exported by IGMAN j.j. Konjic, (Bosnia and Herzegovina) commissioned by Orbital ATK. The consignee was the National Police of Afghanistan. Interestingly, all these diplomatic flights with weapons had technical landings and a 7 h 30 min stop at Baku before their final destination – Afghanistan.

Military aircrafts of Azerbaijan transported 282 tons of cargo (PG-7VL and other grenades) on 10 diplomatic flights in April and May 2017 to the destination Baku-Rijeka (Croatia)-Baku. The consignor was the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, and the consignee – Culmen International LLC, USA. This same company has been awarded two contracts ($47 million each) along with other contractors for non-US standard weapon supplies on 18 February 2016 and 19 April 2017 respectively.

Chemring Military Products is another main contractor in the program for non-US standard weapon supplies to the US army through diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights. This military supplier has 4 contracts for $302.8 million in total. The weapons were purchased from local manufacturers in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania and according to documents transported to Iraq and Afghanistan via diplomatic flights.

The largest non-US standard weapons supplier to the US army is Alliant Techsystems Operations-USA with contracts totalling $490.4 million. In December of 2016, this company transported tons of grenades (API 23×115 mm, HE 23×115 mm, GSH 23×115 mm) from Yugoimport, Serbia to the Afghani Defense Ministry on diplomatic flights to the destination Baku-Belgrade-Kabul.

 

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Posted 10 July 2017 - 09:19 AM

news.am, Armenia
July 9 2017
 
 
Armenia analyst: Bulgarian periodical’s finding is latest example of corruption in Azerbaijan
10:59, 09.07.2017
 
 
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YEREVAN. – The article of the Bulgarian periodical is a major finding as to how irresponsible Azerbaijan is, and to what extent the policy of this country’s government undermines regional security and stability.

Regional Studies Center Director, political analyst Richard Giragosian, told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am. At the same time, he urged to be vigilant. 

As per Giragosian, however, even if these accusations were to be confirmed, there is no need to expect major reaction from the international community because there is nothing new here, considering Azerbaijan’s caviar diplomacy and corruption links with the Council of Europe. He added that this is just the latest, but not the first example of corruption in Azerbaijan.

A Bulgarian periodical wrote that the Azerbaijani Silk Way cargo airline and the Azerbaijani air force had transported weapons under the guise of diplomatic flights. Grad missiles were discovered in the depot of Al-Nusra jihadist terrorist organization, in Aleppo.

According to this Bulgarian source, Azerbaijan supplied weapons also to the Islamic State terrorist organization, in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

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Posted 20 August 2017 - 09:34 AM

Take this and feast on it, you fake sultan of azerbaboon!!!!!!!!!!!!

News.am, Armenia

Aug 19 2017
 
 
 
Turkish historian: There is no Azeri nation, this name was given by Stalin
13:22, 19.08.2017
 
 
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Turkish historian Ilber Ortayli made a statement that provoked indignation of Azerbaijanis.

Speaking about the term “Azeri” Ortayli said that there is no “Azeri nation”, CNN Turk reported.

“This is a name given by Stalin – an ignorant Georgian who knew nothing about nations,” the historian said.

 

https://news.am/eng/news/405513.html

 

 


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Posted 01 September 2017 - 10:26 AM

Lragir, Armenia
Aug 30 2017
 
 
Strange Things Are Happening in Azerbaijan
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One of the biggest ammunition depots in Azerbaijan was caught on fire, with exploding projectiles.

 

They wrote on social media that the people of the adjacent villages had been evacuated “beforehand” therefore nobody was hurt. In other words, it is possible that the fire had been prepared to write off ammunition and some people’s sins. It is suggested that Azerbaijan sells part of the ammunition it buys to terrorist organizations, and the sold ammunition will be written off after fire. Or there may be regular corruption: the army allegedly bought weapons but there was only money laundering. Recently there has been a conflict among clans in the Azerbaijani army, and it is possible that one of the clans is trying to whitewash the unbought or low quality ammunition.

 

Interestingly, a few days ago a militant was killed who was preparing an attack on a government agency. The Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies informed that Yashar Oktay oglu Javadov, an Azerbaijani citizen who participated in extremist military actions abroad, joined a terrorist group, received financial support, bought weapons to attack the government agency. Javadov was killed but there is an opinion that terrorist organizations are planning attacks in Azerbaijan, including against government officials. Although nobody specifies the terrorist organization he had joined, Azerbaijan is already waiting for the return of Azerbaijanis fighting for ISIS.

 

It is also interesting that the Azerbaijani authorities have arrested Mehman Aliyev, the editor of the last independent media, Turan Agency. The U.S. State Department has called for setting him free. Ilham Aliyev cannot take such a risk. He builds barricades on all sides, tries to neutralize the possible coup, possible terrorist attacks, as well as opposition intelligentsia. Aliyev is in panic. The unexpected statement by the former president Ayaz Mutalibov on supporting Mehriban Aliyeva in the next election was not accidental.
 


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Posted 03 September 2017 - 12:03 PM

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 2 2017
 
 
 
Two Canadian MPs banned from Azerbaijan for visiting Karabakh

 

Two Canadian Conservative MPs Tony Clement and Rachael Harder have been banned from Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a report by The Globe and Mail.

Azerbaijan's foreign ministry has accused the MPs of falling for the "propaganda of the Armenian side" and ignoring four resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.

The Conservative MPs are visiting the region on a trip paid for by One Free World International, a Toronto non-profit group headed by a Muslim-turned-Christian that advocates for persecuted minorities. They are accompanied by Armenian National Committee of Canada executive director Sevag Belian, who helped set up meetings with top government officials.

According to the source, Azerbaijan has lodged a protest with the Canadian government about the MPs' trip and placed them on its list of undesirable persons.

Azerbaijani foreign ministry chief spokesperson Hikmat Hajiyev told The Globe and Mail that the visit ‘is completely immoral and against the values of the Canadian government and Canadian society.’ “It is completely unacceptable,” he announced.

In a telephone interview from Armenia's capital of Yerevan on Friday, Mr. Clement said he was taking part in a documentary that is being produced by One Free World.

"I am not here endorsing anyone. I want both sides to have a negotiated settlement of the situation but I am here on a fact-finding and humanitarian mission along with Rachael Harder," Mr. Clement said.

However, he conceded that he accepts Armenia's claims that Azerbaijani forces have committed atrocities, citing beheadings and cutting off of the ears of Armenian soldiers.

"What I saw with my own eyes is very disturbing in terms of the atrocities that were committed by Azerbaijani forces. In terms of the political situation, I am sure I echo Global Affairs Canada when I say it is better to have a negotiated solution than a continuing war," Mr. Clement said.

A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland did not directly criticize the two MPs, but made clear that the Canadian government does not wish to take sides in the territorial dispute.

“We fully support the [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's] efforts to forge a peaceful and comprehensive settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the region," press secretary Adam Austen said. "A military solution is not the answer. This is a position we have communicated to the governments of both Armenia and Azerbaijan."

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Take this and feast on it, you fake sultan of azerbaboon!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

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Posted 06 September 2017 - 08:15 AM

EurasiaNet.org
Sept 5 2017
 
 
Azerbaijan Sues French Journalists, In France, For Defamation
September 5, 2017 - 1:42pm, by Bradley Jardine       
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Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, at an event handing over free apartments to government-friendly journalists. Azerbaijan has sued two French journalists for defamation for calling the country a "dictatorship." (photo: president.az)

Two French reporters appeared in a Parisian court on September 5 to face charges that they defamed Azerbaijan by calling it a “dictatorship.”

One of the journalists, Elise Lucet, called Azerbaijan “one of the world’s harshest dictatorships” in a “Cash Investigation” program broadcast on the France 2 television network in September 2015. The other, Laurent Richard, referred to the state as a dictatorship during a radio interview with France Info following his May 2014 arrest during a reporting trip in Baku.

The head of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, Johann Bihr, testified on the journalists' behalf, as did Azerbaijani journalist Agil Khalil and husband-and-wife human rights defenders Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus. Khalil fled to France in 2008 after escaping several murder attempts in Azerbaijan. Leyla and Arif Yunus fled to the Netherlands after being imprisoned for 18 months.

In a release ahead of the trial, RSF called the suit an attempt “to export censorship to France.”

“By suing two French journalists who just used their right to free speech, the Azerbaijani government is demonstrating its complete inability to tolerate criticism, said ”RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire.

Meanwhile, former French parliamentarian Jean-Francois Marcel has agreed to testify for Azerbaijan’s government. Marcel is on the board of directors of the Association of Friends of Azerbaijan, which is partly financed by Baku.

French media called the case “unprecedented” as it appeared to be the first time French media were sued in France by another country.

The suit recalled a similar one in 2011, when Lola Karimova, the daughter of then Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, sued the French news website Rue89 in 2011 for calling her a “dictator’s daughter.” But Karimova then was suing as a private individual. She lost the case, with the court ruling that the article in question was “entirely true to reality.” 

It was a bad PR day overall for Azerbaijan, as the waves from a blockbuster investigation published the night before continued to ripple. On September 4, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) released a damning report on Azerbaijan’s $2.9 billion money-laundering schemes in the UK. In response, Baku blocked access to the OCCRP’s website on September 5.

Hikmet Hajiyev, the spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then took to twitter to suggest the reports are part of a “Soros funded fake news and disinformation campaign” to discredit the government of Azerbaijan.

Hajiyev also attacked Giorgi Gogia, the South Caucasus Director at Human Rights Watch, after he shared a Washington Post op-ed on Baku’s crackdown on independent media, accusing him of orchestrating a “disinformation campaign against Azerbaijan.”

The Azerbaijani authorities have also been carefully dismantling domestic media. The Turan news agency, the country’s last independent media outlet, became the latest victim in August of this year. Its director has been jailed and its bank accounts have been frozen, forcing it to suspend all activities. Access to all the main independent news websites is blocked.

At least 16 of Azerbaijan’s journalists, bloggers and media workers are currently imprisoned according to RSF. 

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Posted 14 September 2017 - 08:49 AM

Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
September 11, 2017 Monday


"Manchester United is older than Azerbaijan", Vice Speaker Sharmazanov
responds to Aliyev's "historic territory" statement



YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS. After the recent corruption
scandals, the Azerbaijani ruling powers, led by their president, are
spasmodic and are attempting to find new platforms to spread their
lies, Vice-Speaker of Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov told a press
briefing, commenting on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement
at the Islamic Cooperation Conference, where he said that “Nagorno
Karabakh is a territory of historical Azerbaijan”.

“One must first of all have a history prior to having historic
territories. Azerbaijan has only a 99 year old history. Let me say for
comparison, the famous Manchester United [football club] is 40 years
older than Azerbaijan”, Sharmazanov said.

Commenting on Aliyev’s accusations that Armenians have allegedly
destroyed Islamic monuments and are Islamophobic , Sharmazanov
stressed that from this perspective, any democratic nation can take
Armenia’s experience. Only 2500 Kurdish Muslims live in Armenia, while
under the new Constitution the country has enables that small
community to have a lawmaker in the Parliament.

“This is yet another ridiculous statement, which stem from the fact
that the Azerbaijani leadership is facing a force majeure. Reports
have emerged that Azerbaijan has financed terrorism, Western media
presented facts about Azerbaijani corruption scandals, therefore the
Azerbaijani ruling power is trying to deviate the arrows, but they are
failing”, he said.

Commenting on Aliyev’s statement that Armenians are destroying Islamic
monuments, Sharmazanov reminded that the Blue Mosque is operating in
downtown Yerevan, which is a symbol of Yerevan.

“Prior to speaking about destruction of monuments, it would be better
if they’d refreshed their memory, they have destroyed tens of
thousands of Armenian cross-stones in Nakhijevan”, he said.


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Posted 22 September 2017 - 01:39 PM

EurasiaNet.org
Sept 22 2017
 
 
Russia Closes Azerbaijani Diaspora Organization
September 22, 2017 - 3:55am, by Bradley Jardine
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The Russian Supreme Court has ordered the country's largest Azeri diaspora organization closed. (photo: Supreme Court of Russia)

The Russian Supreme Court has upheld a prior decision to shutter the country's largest Azeri diaspora organization, a move that was sharply criticized by Baku.

The All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress (ARAC) was liquidated on September 19 at the request of the Russian Ministry of Justice. Hikmet Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the verdict was “surprising” and caused “deep regret.”

“In general, we regard the decision to eliminate ARAC, which played an important role in the development of humanitarian relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, as an unfriendly step from the political point of view, which severely impacts the development of the strategic partnership of the two countries at a high level,” Hajiyev told the AzerTaj state news agency. He also called into question Russia's objectivity as part of the international team mediating between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. 

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded with a statement calling those accusations strange and bewildering. "We have provided comprehensive explanations on this matter. However, Mr Hajiev continues to uphold the idea, which we consider strange, that this decision by a Russian court regarding a Russian public organisation is not just “an unfriendly step” towards Azerbaijan, but one that can somehow complicate Russia’s mediatory mission in the Nagorno-Karabkah settlement. Growing bewilderment is the only emotion this position provokes."

The Russian Supreme Court had ruled, on May 15, to revoke the registration of ARAC, the largest and most influential Azerbaijani diaspora organization in Russia. ARAC's appeal was rejected.

The Russian Ministry of Justice filed the original petition to the Supreme Court after noting significant legal violations during the organization’s inspection. The Ministry of Justice also highlighted the fact that the Congress ignored these violations, failing to amend them by the October 2016 deadline.

The violations are technical in nature, such as the ARAC Charter’s failure to mention the nature of the Congress’ activity, and the fact that the Congress does not periodically hold presidium meetings.

Nevertheless, that hasn't stopped many in Azerbaijan from interpreting the organization's legal troubles as somehow directed at Baku.

Hajiyev accused Russia of favoring Armenia with the decision: "While an unfair ruling is used against representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia, the Union of Armenians of Russia is fully supported and continues its work," Hajiev said.

Nazim Ibrahimov, the chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee on Work with the Diaspora, has expressed regret over the verdict.

"The adopted decision in no way corresponds to the spirit of strategic partnership that exists between our countries," Ibrahimov said in a September 19 statement. "Undoubtedly, the abolition of the ARAC serves the interests of powers intent on weakening our countries' mutual confidence, as well as state relations," he said.

The organization plays a role in the lives of hundreds of thousands of labor migrants living in Russia who send remittances back to Azerbaijan. Many of those are not Russian citizens and work there temporarily as guest workers. Remittances from Russia to Azerbaijan totaled $739 million in 2016.

Fazil Gurbanov, president of the ARAC, expressed his disappointment in a statement on the website of the Congress.

“I think the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is flawed and counterproductive!” Gurbanov said in his statement. “In fact, it is infringing the civil rights of Azerbaijanis in Russia.”

The All-Russian Azerbaijan Congress was established in 2001. 

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Posted 24 September 2017 - 08:38 AM

Fake tolerant dictator, fake religious tolerance! Fake European observers who are on the take, where is the money fake sultan aliyev!

Panorama, Armenia

Sept 23 2017
 
 
 
Armenian lawmakers unable to enter the Armenian Church in Baku

 

Member of the Armenian parliament Armen Ashotyan and Mane Tandilyan, who are on a visit to Baku, Azerbaijani to attend Euronest Parliamentary Assembly conference, toured the city and visited the Armenian Church in the capital of Azerbaijan which tuned out to have been closed. 

Facebook page of the Parliament Committee on Foreign Relations has published photos of the MPs touring the city and posing in front of the Church which reportedly underwent renovation in 2004 and is currently used as a library.

“The area around the Church and the building itself are closed. Our delegates had no opportunity to enter the Church territory,” the post reads.

https://www.panorama...23/Baku/1839377

 

 



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Posted 25 September 2017 - 09:08 AM

This is the behaviour of a civilized (NOT) azeri. 

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia

September 23, 2017 Saturday


Azerbaijani MP calls to break bottle on head of Armenian MPs in Baku

Yerevan September 23

Naira Badalyan. Member of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee on
Legal Policy and State Building, MP Rafael Dzhabrailov considers it
possible that "an Azerbaijani" can break a bottle about the heads of
Armenian deputies arriving in Baku.

Haqqin.az reports with reference to Qafqazinfo that the Azerbaijani MP
sees the malicious intent that "Armenian MPs are photographed in Baku
with filled glasses in hand, spreading this photo on the network."
According to the elect of the people, with such photos, the Armenian
deputies deliberately provoke the Azerbaijanis, so that somebody could
not stand and attack Armenians with fists. "Armenian MPs made glasses
with glasses in their hotel room, if they were sitting in a restaurant
and behaving inappropriately, an Azerbaijani would certainly break a
bottle of alcohol about their heads." Honestly, if this happened, for
me it would be became simply butter on heart. Though, judging coolly,
I also understand, what is it not a method, "MP Rafael Dzhabrailov
admitted.

On September 22, the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly held a conference
in Baku, and a delegation from Armenia led by the chairman of the
permanent committee on foreign relations of the Armenian Parliament
Armen Ashotyan took part. Ashotyan said, speaking at the autumn
session of the Parliamentary Assembly, all sides suffer from the
conflicts, and therefore, they must be considered and discussed based
on the principles of humanism and human rights, regardless of
political, ethnic or religious differences. In this context, he urged
the Azerbaijani establishment not to sow the Armenophobia and
xenophobia in the young generation, which will have negative
consequences throughout the region. The night before, on the day of
the celebration of Armenia's independence, on the page of the
commission in the social network Facebook, the Armenian
parliamentarians published a photo and wrote: "We spent this holiday
on the road and finally arrived in Baku." We heartily congratulate all
of us on Independence Day. Long live the Republic of Armenia and the
Armenian people! ".

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