Bush & His Fight For Terrorism

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ARMENIA AND TERRORISM ACCORDING TO US DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

On May 1 the US Department of State published its annual report on terrorism. In these reports, published regularly since 2004, are being figured out the statistics for anti-terror actions in the world and US cooperation with other states. Naturally, we are first of all interested in the statistics about struggle against terrorism in Armenia and its neighbors, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

 

Comparing the conclusions about Armenia and Azerbaijan, at once we noticed that a great number of people were arrested in Azerbaijan under suspicion of being involved in terrorist organizations. The report says that 15 civilians, calling themselves "North Army of Mahdee" were detained and accused for being in contact with the Iranian Revolution Guardians’ Corpse. Another terrorist group, lead by some Arab, Abu Jafar, was caught in Sumgayit. 11 people were arrested in September. It is said they were preparing a terrorist attack against the US Embassy in Baku.

 

However, the report on Azerbaijan, so rich with arrests and terrorist organizations, lacks the most important part – the conclusion. It is uncertain, whether the United States are concerned with the large number of terrorists in Azerbaijan, or not.

 

On the contrary, the report on Armenia, where not a single incident however linked with terrorism was recorded, is full of conclusions of the American "experts". It turns out that the USA is troubled with the intensive Armenian-Iranian relations. The "experts" elaborated in details, how last year the President and the Defense Minister of Iran visited Armenia and how close the diplomatic relations between Yerevan and Teheran are. By the way, the President and the Defense Minister of Iran also visited Azerbaijan in 2007, but nothing is said about that in the report.

 

At the same time Department of State report says that although Armenia cooperates with the USA the in struggle against terrorism, the corruption in the Government, shadow economy and high level of criminal may permit illegal transfer of arms, terrorists and money through the territory of Armenia.

 

Our conclusion is simple and obvious: the Department of State had nothing to write about Armenia and all the absurd was written in order to write just something. The report on Armenia has no legal or juristic grounding and is only aimed at stating that there are "certain criminal elements" in Armenia, which may possibly cooperate with terrorist financial structures. This sounds absurd, when at the very same time there are dozens of such criminals in Azerbaijan, which are already cooperating both with financial and militant terrorist structures. The report clearly shows that the United States, having nothing to say against Armenia, but minding to equalize Armenia and Azerbaijan, invented inconsistent and fake "accusations" (if this word is suitable here).

 

 

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AZERBAIJAN IS TRYING TO IMPOSE ITS CONDITIONS ON IRAN AND RUSSIA

 

PanARMENIAN.Net

29.04.2008 GMT+04:00

 

It is not clear, why a country having a lot of unsolved political

and economic matters needs another problem.

 

Lately in the relationship between Azerbaijan and Russia some kind

of tension regarding Iran, or to be more exact, regarding the nuclear

power-station equipment supply. Thermal equipment for the first Iranian

nuclear power-station coming from Russia was detained in Azerbaijan

about a month ago. On March 29 Russian road-train carrying thermal

equipment, destined for "Busher" nuclear power-station in Iran was

detained in "Astara". The negotiations of the representatives of

"Rosatom" with Azerbaijan about the equipment have been no success

so far.

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At first Tehran decided not to interfere in the

process, declaring that problem should be solved by the general

contractor of the construction of the station; the Russian company

"Atomstroiexport". According to the official representative of the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Mohamed Ali Hussein, the Russian

party is trying to solve the problem as soon as possible. "In our turn

we demanded from the Azerbaijani Ambassador in Tehran also to take

some steps for the equipment to be in Iran as soon as possible. This

equipment is transported to Iran in the frames of international norms

and there should be no obstacle for that," said the Iranian diplomat.

 

The Azeri Ambassador in Iran Abbasali Hasanov is called to the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs of Iran regarding the detention of the Russian

road-train on the Azerbaijani border. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of Iran expressed his protest to the Ambassador regarding the created

situation. Tehran demanded from Baku to allow the transportation of

the equipment through Azeri-Iranian border.

 

The Azeri party confirms that Russia has not presented all the

necessary documents describing the character of the special equipment

intended for the construction of "Busher" nuclear power-station. The

Russian party in its turn says that the load has completed the

process of export control and the UN sanctions do not apply to

it. Earlier Russian sources in Moscow, which are familiar with the

created situation, said to RIA Novosti, that the road-train detained

in Azerbaijan is nothing but a political decision of the authorities

of the country.

 

After the detention of the equipment "Atomstroiexport" did not receive

any official inquiry from Azerbaijan concerning this load. Later the

Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan

Khazar Ibrahim announced that the republic has made inquiry about

the load to Russia.

 

"Azerbaijan calls upon Iran to keep from abrupt announcements

contradicting the diplomatic norms. No country has the right to talk to

Azerbaijan with ultimatum. This contradicts the relations between Iran

and Azerbaijan, as well as all diplomatic and ethnic norms. Azerbaijan

takes measures only in the frames of its legislation and international

regulations," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. He

also mentioned that Azerbaijan will take a decision after receiving

an answer from the Russian party on the inquiry about the character

of the load.

 

The scandal definitely gains more and more attention and even had the

interference of the Department of States of the USA. According to

the Head of the Press-Service of the US Department of States Shown

McCormack, the question of the load for the nuclear power-station

construction in Iran, detained on March 29 on the border of

Azerbaijan and Iran must be solved by the governments of Russia and

Azerbaijan. "The USA has no reasons to suspect that the transportation

of load was against the UN Security Council," he said.

 

The measures of the official Baku are totally based on the policy

of Ilham Aliyev, who thinks that his country is so independent,

that it can impose its conditions on if not on the entire world,

at least on Russia and Iran. Of course realizing that the detention

of the Russian load will not bring to any success, Baku immediately

started to justify itself saying the Russian party does not provide

with all the necessary documents. On the other hand one can understand

Aliyev; he wants to get support from the USA in case of the attack on

Iran. However, Baku has missed one important factor, the international

laws are necessary for every country and no military budget or oil will

be able to solve the problem. It is not clear, why a country having

a lot of unsolved political and economic matters needs another problem.

 

No matter how much the Azeri press tries to convince everybody,

it is very hard to live in a country rich with oil and gas. It is

very unlikely that offcial Baku is happy with the situation of the

country, but trying to shake the fist won't do any harm. And also,

making a base out of Azerbaijan for the US attacks on Iran will have

a negative response in the entire Islamic world, and first of all in

Turkey and Iran, with which spoiling the relations would not be of

any good for Aliyev.