US DELAYS RESPONSE TO AZERBAIJAN’S NOTE
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Jan 11 2010
Azerbaijan
Khazar Ibrahim The response to the protest of official Baku is delayed
for some unknown reasons.
The state department has not responded to an official note of the
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry due to adoption of a bill envisioning
aid of up to $8 mln to Nagorno Karabakh.
According to adviser for the Azerbaijani embassy in US Khazar
Ibrahim, sources in the US embassy in Azerbaijan said the note will
be responded. But the cause of delay is unknown.
The note fixes protest against allocation of assistance to Nagorno
Karabakh. The Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan along with other
adjacent regions is under Armenia’s occupation.
This means that conduction of any programs and activity of the US
government in Nagorno Karabakh or other occupied Azerbaijani lands
without prior negotiating with the Azerbaijani government contradicts
to the officially declared US position about support to sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan within its internationally
recognized borders.
The note says that the implementation of these programs without
Azerbaijan’s permission will be viewed as the US support to the
separatist regime created in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands, will promote
continued occupation of these lands and have a negative influence
on the efforts to settle the conflict and undermine the US image of
"a fair and unbiased mediator" as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.
The US side promised to present the response note in the shortest
period of time.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
