AZERBAIJAN EYES ARMENIA, NKR, RUSSIA AND IRAN AS ENEMIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.09.2007 14:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Vafa Guluzade, once a renowned "hawk" in Baku,
was plucked and a bit broiled by Heydar Aliyev. Now he is playing up
to Aliyev junior.

However, it’s not his personal ambitions. Guluzade sounds "fresh ideas"
if they are meant to please Ilham Aliyev and fit Azerbaijan’s foreign
policy, which aims at integration with U.S. and NATO and confrontation
with Russia," political scientist Levon Melik Shahnazaryan said in
an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.

"In this respect, Guluzade’s statement clearly reflects the aspirations
of Azerbaijan, which eyes Armenia, NKR, Russia and Iran as enemies. I
should mention that Azerbaijan is immoderately trying to satisfy its
new patrons," he said.

"This statement is a propagandistic canard. I repeat, Guluzade sounds
Azerbaijan’s foreign ambitions. This republic estranges itself from
Russia to please the U.S. Do you remember the headlines of Saturday
edition of pro-governmental Zerkalo (Mirror) Baku-based newspaper? The
headlines read, "Russia levies war on Azerbaijan and Georgia",
"Putin’s provocation fails", "New imperial spurt ahead"…

All this is meant to demonstrate adherence to Washington. However, Baku
dislikes confessing that the majority of population lives at expense
of transfers made by Azeri gastarbeiters in Russia," he continued.

"Azerbaijan’s original understanding of geopolitical dualism leads
to such collisions," Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

The other day Azeri political scientist Vafa Guluzade said "Azerbaijan
had better deploy a couple of divisions in Nakhichevan and aim them
at Yerevan and Russian bases in Armenia."