Politics:

Elmar Mamedyarov vs. Safar Abiyev

Belligerent announcements periodically published in the Azeri Mass Media, have a very good effect on the Azeri nation, but a very negative one on the image of the country abroad.

December 11, 2007
After the scandalous announcement made by the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev about the 100% of possibility of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, there was a kind of a waiting silence in Baku. To all appearances, Ilham Aliyev's people were waiting for the reaction of the world community to the obviously provocative announcement of the Minister of Defense. Soon the European officials of the highest rank momentarily reacted to Abiyev's "militarism", once again repeating that the implementation of force in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation is simply excluded. Perhaps Safar Abiyev missed to notice that it is quite a different thing when Ilham Aliyev speaks about war in front of his citizens and when one speaks about it at the summit of Ministers of Defense of CIS.
 
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