MUBARIZ AHMADOGLU: RUSSIA’S ACTIVITY IN GARABAGH CONFLICT IS LINKED WITH AZERI GAS

Azerbaijan Business Center
Aug 6 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Today Mubariz Ahmadoglu, the director of the
Centre for Political Innovations & Technologies, has conducted a
press conference devoted to socio-political processes this July.

At the press conference Ahmadoglu said that Azerbaijan became the
first country of the South Caucasus visited by Dmitry Medvedev shortly
after he took up the duties of Russian leader.

"That testifies that Azerbaijan is more important for Russia than
Armenia," Ahmadoglu said.

The Centre’s director considers that the Declaration signed during
the Baku visit of the Russian President became more thorough compared
to the previous one.

"In the Declaration Azerbaijan and Russia undertook the commitment to
return refugees and IFPs to place of their previous residence in the
near future. The parties intend to settle Nagorno Garabagh conflict
for a short period. There are certain reasons for that. Positive
activity demonstrated by Russia in the issue of Garabagh conflict
settlement is linked with Azeri gas,’ Ahmadoglu said.

He, probably, meant Russian monopoly Gazprom’s readiness to buy whole
volume of Azeri gas at European prices.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress