AZERBAIJAN’S FOREIGN POLICY IS ORIENTED TOWARDS WEST, SOCIETY – TO ISLAM

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.05.2007 14:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Azerbaijan’s foreign policy is oriented towards
the West, while the society prefers the Islamic way of development,"
Director of Peace and War Institute of Baku Arif Yunusov stated at the
conference in Yerevan organized by the Caucasian Media Institute. He
said beginning from 2004 Islam is not used in negative context in
the Azeri press. "I must notice that West for Azerbaijan is not
only the U.S., but also Turkey, Israel and other states. We prefer
to move towards the Turkish direction. There also exists a danger
of involving Azerbaijan in the war against Iran, if such a thing
happens. It’s true that Azerbaijan will not be in the foreground,
it may be used by the United States as a subsidiary bridgehead.

In this case a humanitarian catastrophe awaits us.

Some 40-50 thousands of refugees from Iran have already flooded
Baku who buy apartments. And what will happen in case of military
invasion? It is even terrible to think about it. The border between
the two countries is rather transparent and about one million refugees
may arrive in Azerbaijan and our country just will not be able to
accept them," Yunusov said.