PanARMENIAN.Net
In case of war Azerbaijan will render Georgia at least
diplomatic assistance
06.05.2008 16:33 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is no real confirmation that
weapons and mujahids will be transported from Kabul to
Georgia via Azerbaijan, a Russian expert said.
`Azerbaijan and Georgia are close in their positions,
since they collaborate within GUAM and implement joint
economic (Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railroad) and
military projects. To what extent is Azerbaijan ready
to get involved in the conflict? Appearance of the
Afghan factor will play into the hands of the
incumbent leadership’s rivals,’ head of the
interethnic relations department at Moscow’s Institute
of Political and Military Analysis Sergei Markedonov
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
`Nevertheless, Azerbaijan will render Georgia at least
diplomatic assistance, for these two states experience
similar territorial problems,’ he added.
It’s worth mentioning that on May 4, 2008, Real
Azerbaijan newspaper posted on its website an article
titled `Will Azerbaijanis help Georgia?’
( 65), telling
about the possibility of Azerbaijan’s military
assistance to Georgia in case of war against Abkhazia.
Meanwhile, a relevant publication by PanARMENIAN.Net
aroused hysteria in Baku.
Real Azerbaijan’s website was removed from the server.
However, PanARMENIAN.Net brings to the readers’
attention the screenshot of the website and a
reference in Google.
The article that aroused Azerbaijan’s confusion says
in part,
`Azerbaijan intends to assist Georgia in resolving its
territorial problems.
For the purpose, Baku-Kabul flights suspended in March
2008 will be resumed. Trained Afghan mujahids and
large lots of weapons are expected to be airlifted to
Azerbaijan and then to Georgia, Real Azerbaijan
website reports.
According to preliminary data, some 500 Afghan
commandos trained in British camps will arrive in
Georgia. In operation against Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, they will use weapons received from their
British sponsors, thus protecting Azerbaijan from
`coming into the spotlight.’
Reliable sources report that Azeris are being
recruited in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine
and several other states with numerous Azeri diaspora.
The recruitment is conducted under supervision of
"Azerbaycan Diasporasi" chairman Fikret Veliyev,
chairman of Murmansk division of the All-Russian
Azerbaijani Congress Rafik Badirov, president of
federal national and cultural autonomy of Azeris of
Russia Sayun Sadykov. Not only ordinary Azeris but
also students of Moscow and Kyiv universities are
recruited.
Head of the department of political studies of the
Azerbaijani presidential administration Fuad Akhundov
and chief of the division of foreign policy planning
and strategic studies at the Azeri MFA Tofik Musayev
have been commissioned to coordinate the Azeri
diaspora’s work.
1.5-2 thousand prisoners, who committed grave crimes,
will be granted amnesty on occasion of Heydar Aliyev’s
85th birthday. It’s expected that half of them will be
sent to Georgia as well.
The process of Azeri units’ formation was speeded up
after Russian heavy artillery, weapons and equipment
and additional troops crossed Georgia’s state border.’