MEDIA: BAKU DID NOT LIMIT HIMSELF WITH DIPLOMATIC NOTES AND IS GOING MAKE CLAIMS TO RF FM PERSONALLY?

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.05.2007 17:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is not excluded that during Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Baku Azeri politicians will make
claims concerning Baku’s dissatisfaction with publications in the
Great Russian Encyclopedia – an article about Nagorno Karabakh, as
well as a TV program on "Rossia" TV channel, where " that region
of Azerbaijan" as called an a historical territory of Armenia,
"Nezavisimaya Gazeta" reports.

"It is worth mentioning that this incident aroused a negative reaction
in Azerbaijan, and even the Azeri MFA sent two notes of protest to
Russia. Analyst Alpay Ahmed thinks such mistakes casts shadow on the
equal relations of both countries. "Moscow states that Azerbaijan is an
important strategic partner for Russia on the long-term perspective. At
the same time official publications and TV channels try to distort
the history of Azerbaijan. In such cases ordinary Azeris have nothing
else than to cast doubt on sincerity of the Kremlin," the political
scientist thinks, the newspaper reports.

Meanwhile as Strana.ru reports, official representative of the
Azeri MFA Ibrahim Khazar stated that in connection with the fact
that Azerbaijan is not satisfied with Russia’s response to its
first note and there is no answer for the second note, "this issue
will be touched during Azeri-Russian high level bilateral meetings,
particularly during Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Baku.

According to the Russian expert "those notes addressed to Russia pour
constantly from that very moment, when the war between Armenia and
Azerbaijan was stopped".

He said, any sneeze from the Russian side, even unofficial, arouses
irritated reaction by Baku, though Americans do such things that
Russia even does not dream of". "Say, the U.S. Congress gives economic
assistance to Nagorno Karabakh, and Azerbaijan does not protest for
that. Because Americans ignore such demarcate and they decide who to
have relations with and in what format," the analyst said.