Azad Azarbaycan TV
Dec 16 2009
Azerbaijan unhappy with US aid to breakaway Karabakh
[Presenter] Baku is concerned about the traditional assistance
provided by the United States to the separatist Nagornyy Karabakh
regime. However, this concern cannot be described as anti-US
propaganda inside the country, a department head at the Presidential
Administration, Ali Hasanov, has said.
[Hasanov, speaking to reporters] We are not against assistance to
people suffering in Nagornyy Karabakh who need help. But if there are
people who need this assistance in Nagornyy Karabakh, it is members of
the Azerbaijani community who have been displaced from Nagornyy
Karabakh and who have been forced to live in inhumane conditions in
tent camps for years. All our demands and appeals are that the same US
Congress, the same congressmen who raised this issue at the Congress,
and the American public who supported it should take account of these
circumstances. No matter who receives this assistance, it helps
strengthen the ethnic separatist regime in Nagornyy Karabakh. In any
case, it helps strengthen the uncontrolled military entity in Nagornyy
Karabakh and therefore – [clip cut mid-sentence]
[Presenter] As is known, an appeal was made yesterday to the US
president and Congress on behalf of Azerbaijani parliament over the
issue. The deputy speaker of the Milli Maclis [Azerbaijani
parliament], Bahar Muradova, believes that the MPs tried to make it
clear to Washington that it did not take a fair position in the first
place.
[Muradova, speaking to a reporter in her office] These are statements
we have always been hearing from the USA and US officials concerning
world policies – bringing peace, stability, exporting democracy to
different parts of the world – these are America’s priorities, its
objectives. But if we look at the decision from any of these angles,
it is absolutely not fair. From this standpoint in the first place,
there is disbalance and discrepancy between what the USA declares and
its actions and decisions. In view of this, I believe that when
adopting this decision, the US Congress failed to act in accordance
with the principle of justice, the principle of territorial integrity,
independence, strategic partnership, cooperation, or signed
agreements.
[translated from Azeri]