Does Azerbaijan deny the US assistance in holding election?

PanARMENIAN.Net - Yet, this is not as interesting as the further statements of Makhtiev: "the words of the US Secretary General Condoleezza Rice in address to Azerbaijan are extremely unfounded. This means that in Georgia and in Armenia the public-political situation and other issues are very well solved, and Azerbaijan is considered the only backward country in the region." Baku does not seem willing or does not want to understand that one cannot fool the entire world with numbers and fake reports: the journalists do not move, there is no opposition in the country, and the Azeri delegation in PACE remembers about the human rights factor only when they are reminded to do so. The truth is though that even in this case it acts in the habitual methods: "you are the fool". "Fool" of course refers to the Armenians. But this is already a different story; however, Baku has lately started to simply force the Armenian party to answer back to their insinuation filling the entire Azeri press. Is it possible that the Personnel of Ilham Aliyev and the president himself are so naïve that they think that the whole world including the USA will consider their opinion only because at this moment Azerbaijan is of some importance to the big powers? Yet, there may be another interpretation to Mekhtiev's words, i.e. three million is not
enough, give us some more.

The US Embassy in Baku did not fail to response to the statements made by Ramiz Mekhtiev. Azerbaijan, having been mentioned by Bush, as one of the countries where the number of the convicted journalists is the highest, and this numbers are concrete and true. These numbers concern the year of 2007. By the end of the year half of the journalists have been released and now the situation is a bit different. That is why the numbers given by the US President for the year of 2007 are correct," said the Head of the Department for Public Affairs Jonathan Hennik. "There is no need to search for something blameworthy in the allocation of the $ 3 million that the USA has assigned for holding democratic election in Azerbaijan. This money is meant to ensure democratic election, and give chance to all the organizations to
carry monitoring of the election. This is not a financial support to certain political organizations, but assistance to the entire process of democratization of the country," he said.

Each country chooses its destiny regardless whether it has adopted the democratic or any other from of government. But each country must respect the international community and not impose its rules. Yet, these rules are not for Baku. Having adopted the historical anti-Armenian propaganda, which is of course encouraged by Turkey, and receiving big money, the Azeri elite wants the whole world obeys them. For example the 90% of the information disseminated by the Azeri press if is not a mere lie, is quite close to it. This particularly concerns various comments and opinions, which are made by the foreign experts. And perhaps it has never occurred to them that their words, being torn away from the context, will be delivered like ideas of foreign experts "who are exceptionally for the territorial integrity of Azerbajian". Anyway, this is the topic that has been discussed too much, that it does not interest anyone any more. There is something else, which is of more danger: the neighboring countries which have to play with the rules set by Baku, will participate in the dirty game. and then, the ruin of the region is inevitable. Maybe the USA needs this to keep all the three
countries of South Caucasus in its control. However, it should not be forgotten that the future President of the USA may be democrat. The basic trends of the American foreign policy will not change, but the world will be viewed differently. There are no doubts that Azerbaijan will adjust to the new conditions as well, but will it have enough oil and power, is a quite different question.