CHAIRMAN OF AN AZERBAIJANI PARTY SAYS ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ACHIEVED COUNTER RESULT IN ISSUE ON MOVING AMENDMENTS INTO U. S. PREPARED REPORT
TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. A. Ismayilova/ George W. Bush, the
President of U. S. A. did not use the word – "genocide" again during
his annual message to the Congress held on April 24. He once more
prefered using the folowing expresion – "We honour the memory of
victims of one of the largest tragedies of 20 century, when almost
1.5 mln. Armenians died during the last years of the existing of the
Ottoman Empire, when many of them became victims of massacres and
forcible resettlement".
Asim Mollazadeh, the Chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms
Party, considers that this step taken by President Bush spoke about the
fact that U. S. perfectly realized that the country’s acknowledging
the so-called "genocide" might seriously blow on cooperation with
the American strategic partner – Turkey.
Therefore, as compared with the position of some American congressmen,
the position of the U. S. Administration has always based upon the
national interests of U. S. A only.
Touching making alterations to the human rights report prepared by
the U. S. State Department, Mr. Mollazadeh said that it should not
affect mutual strategic relations between Azerbaijan and U. S. A ,
since we were strategic partners. According to him, the attempt to
organize a campaign on one’s own and use this fact was the key role
in the issue on making changes into this report.
The behavior and actions taken by the Armenian Acting Foreign Minister,
Vardan Oskanian was a vivid example to it. Mr. Oskanian has always
tried to play this event as a possibility of Armenia’s political
influence on taking decisions both in the U. S. State Department and
America as a whole.
The Chairman of the Azerbaijani Party notes that as a result of all
these, Mr. Oskanian has achieved a counter result by his behavior,
and U. S. A. once more stated that they acknowledge the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan.
However, a political analyst, Zardusht Alizadeh considers that the
American ultimate goal is to redeem Armenia from Russia. "Official
Washington states that it acknowledges the territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan, but we should base upon the facts, not words," considers
Mr. Alizadeh. According to him, America financially, morally, as well
as politically, psychologically, and militarily maintains Armenia.