DYNASTIC REGIME OF ALIYEVS STARTS DETECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF REASONS OF APPEARANCE OF ‘INCORRECT’ MAP OF NKR AT FREEDOM HOUSE’S SITE
ArmInfo
2009-12-18 12:06:00
ArmInfo. Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan started investigating the
reasons of placement of an ‘incorrect map’ of Nagorno Karabakh at
the site of Freedom House. The Azerbaijani Embassy in the USA was
encharged with a task in order "to cast light upon this issue",
official representative of the Foreign Ministry Elhan Poluhov told
1news.az.
In particular, Poluhov’s indignation was caused by placement of
the NKR map at the site of the International non-governmental
organization Freedom House, which was accompanied by a text where
Nagorno Karabakh was indicated as a disputable territory between
Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, Baku did not quiet, and more absurd
threats followed after the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s threat to
start a detective activity and conduct doubtful investigations with
respect to the Freedom House’s activity. In particular, Chairman of the
Committee for Human Rights of Milli Mejlis Rabiyat Aslanova said that
"denial, by the Freedom House, of the fact of development of democratic
processes in Azerbaijan, of the economic and other spheres as well,
is unfair".
Further, she blamed Freedom House "for hostile stance with regard to
Azerbaijan," saying that the Organization "unfairly ranked Azerbaijan
among non-free countries and Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh as relatively
free countries." Aslanova accused Freedom House of lie and, basing on
Azerbaijani inexorable logic, declared: "Azerbaijan is very decisive in
its stance to develop democratic reforms". She said that unlike Freedom
House, many other international organizations recognize Azerbaijan
as a democratic country. For some unknown reason, Aslanova did not
name those organizations. For conclusion Rabiyat predicted sooner
collapse of Freedom House.
Considering the dynastic regime of Aliyevs in Azerbaijans, that
country is actually very decisive to make democratic reforms.
Nevertheless, all these "reforms" have just stretched the elastic
constitution of Azerbaijan in favor of Azerbaijani monarchs as
well as have led to arrests of Azerbaijani journalists and human
rights defenders who refuse dancing and singing "Mugham" to Ilham
Aliyev’s pipe. In this context, Aliyev apparently perceives democracy
specifically, in a distorted way, from Azerbaijani viewpoint and
quite like Ms. Aslanova does.