AZERBAIJANI GOVERNMENT HAS PAID CONGRESSMAN DAN BARTON FOR HIS
ANTI-ARMENIAN STATEMENT
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23. ARMINFO. Azerbaijani government has paid the
congressman an Barton for his anti-Armenian statement. A
representative of Armenia’s Embassy in the USA stated in the interview
to Radio Liberty.
To remind, representative of Indiana state to the U.S. Congress,
member of the Committee for international relations, Congressman Dan
Barton recently called on the Congress to recognize so-called “Khojali
genocide”. In the congressman’s opinion, “recognizing the Khojali
genocide, the U,S, Congress break the silence of the international
community concerning this issue”.
As the representative of Armenian embassy mentioned, Barton is only
one of the 435 members of the Congress and the fact he make such a
statement, also depends on the following circumstance: two weeks ago
the government of Azerbaijan hired a lobby organization of the former
congressman Livingston, famous for its pro-Turkish views. The
organization was hired just for conducting pro-Azerbaijani lobby in
the Congress. At the same time, he reminded the group of support to
Armenia comprised of 140 members. “They are conducting Armenian lobby
not for money, but because they are really friends of Armenia”, the
representative of the embassy mentioned.