President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has thanked US President Joe Biden for congratulating him on the occasion of Nowruz, AzerTac reported.
In the respective letter, Aliyev listed all the achievements of three decades of US-Azerbaijan cooperation, and paid special attention to the energy sector.
Even in this letter, however, Aliyev could not resist the temptation to distort the facts and blackmail. First, Aliyev deliberately singled out one from the whole list of principles. In diplomatic interpretation, the Azerbaijani president reminded the US president of the Azerbaijani oil and natural gas reserves, linking it to Washington's support to Baku's position in the “peace agenda” with Armenia.
Given that the collective West ranks energy security issues far higher than the values of democracy and human rights proclaimed by it, Aliyev might have chosen the right emphasis. Otherwise, the same West would somehow react to the "natural gas blockade" which Azerbaijan has subjected the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to.