AZERBAIJANI SCIENTIST ACCUSING US OF "DOUBLE STANDARDS" AND INAPTITUTE AS CO-CHAIR

Tert.am
19.04.10

The Azerbaijani criticism of the United States seems to be going
beyond any limit and the chain of heavily-worded statements from
high-ranking Azerbaijani officials, such as President Ilham Aliyev
or head of public-political issues of the presidential office, Ali
Hasanov, seems to be endless.

Now chief of the Political Analyses and Information Support Department
in the Office of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Dr. Elnur Aslanov has added up to the criticism accusing the US of
"double standards."

"When condemning the actions of the U.S. Congress, we remember that
the U.S. legislature still has the anti-Azerbaijani Amendment 907,
adopted in 1992, on the books. Under this amendment, Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh, receive tens of millions of dollars from the United
States every year, while Azerbaijan is subjected to unjust pressure.

This is a classic case of a double standard," writes Aslanov in
an article published by local Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News &
Economic Review.

Further Dr. Elnur Aslanov accuses US of inaptitude as an OSCE Minsk
Group co-chair state.

"As a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the United States could have
made more effort to establish peace in the region," explains Aslanov.

Interestingly, if not strange and untrue, given the scale of
anti-Armenia efforts by Turks and Azerbaijani, Aslanov accuses the
Turks and Azerbaijani in Europe of not doing enough to avert all
Armenian initiatives when it comes to the adoption of resolutions on
the Armenian Genocide by other countries.

"Today, the Azerbaijani Diaspora in the United States is fighting
alongside Turkish Diaspora organizations against the aggressive
intentions of the Dashnaks, who are seeking the adoption of a
resolution on the so-called Armenian "genocide" in the U.S. Congress.

Azerbaijanis and Turks throughout Europe are sparing no effort to
avert Armenian attempts to falsify history. For example, thanks
to the efforts of the Azerbaijani Diaspora in the Crimea, the Izum
city council revoked a decision to recognize the Armenian "genocide"
before 2010," writes Aslanov.

Earlier in an interview with Reuters news agency Ali Hasanov, Aliyev’s
head of public-political issues, criticised the US of not treating
Azerbaijan as a "strategic country."

"The United States does not implement policy towards Azerbaijan as
a strategic partner, and that’s why we might reconsider our policy
towards the United States," said Ali Hasanov.

Later President Ilham Aliyev, in turn, lashed out at the US as mediator
state accusing them of not being quite aware of the situation in
the region.

"The co-mediator states should be very attentive. May be people are
not well aware of the situation in the region and should try to study
it. If this is the case, I do not want to accuse anyone, let them study
the situation so that to draw correct conclusions," Aliyev had said.