AZERI WILL NOT TO BE A DEPUTY TO AN ARMENIAN

PanARMENIAN.Net - In accordance with the principle of rotation, the representative of Armenia was proposed as the chairman of board. According to the rules, representative of the country that will take the presidency next year, in this case - Azerbaijan, should become deputy chairman. However, Azerbaijan's representative, head of the state oil fund Samir Sharifov, demonstratively refused the post making understand that his country does not wish to have any contact with Armenia within the international organizations. As a result, the Russian representative was elected Deputy Chairman of board.

It should be noted that the caprice of the Azeris might have a negative influence on the bank's activity as after a year they should undertake the chairmanship of the board. It's interesting that this time Azerbaijan did not try to impede the election of Armenia's representative as it did one year ago at the Yerevan conference of TRACECA. We shall remind that the official Baku used it right of veto and blocked the election of the representative of Armenia as a secretary general. Then the program partners hinted that the European Commission had the right to refuse the financing of projects in countries, which try to use their participation in TRACECA for resolving their political problems. Yerevan also reacted. It promised to apply the same tactic during the elections of Azerbaijan's representative. At the session of the commission on Armenia-EU cooperation taken place last week in Brussels the representative of Armenia came out with an initiative to move the TRACECA secretariat from Baku to Tbilisi.

Evidently, understanding all the seriousness of the possible consequences of its demarches, the authorities of Azerbaijan decided not to undertake any more such actions and this time limited themselves with an initiative which can be compared with cocking a snook in a pocket.