Virtual post offices: games Azeris play

September 10, 2013 - 19:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azeri propaganda has been far from perfect over the last 30 years, having gone from poor to ridiculous. Baku has predictably reduced the "significant steps in a propaganda war against Armenia" to absurdity. Hardly had the stir risen by Azeri media calmed over Armenian forward Yura Movsisyan's promoting Armenian interests at Spartak FC when Azerpost released the postal codes of Artsakh’s rural post offices, which Baku calls “occupied territories.” Azeripost chief Ganbar Beybalaeyv characterized he move as a promotion of Azeri rights.

Baku is creating virtual villages in Artsakh - naturally, renamed ones - where Azerpost is allegedly opening its offices. Let's remind these apologies of propagandists that the Karabakh population has for over 22 years been having no problems with sending letters. So Azerpost statement is clearly out of place here.

ANSPRESS Azeri agency must bee feeling happy: releasing the news, it managed to please the leadership while also showing the "true color" of Armenians, who, as a matter of fact, couldn't care less about such sorry moves.

On the other hand, with presidential elections in Azerbaijan looming, local officials are trying to excel in servility, hoping not to be forgotten. Usually it’s with the new leadership that you risk to be forgotten, and that's the danger Azerbaijan will avoid, with Aliyev poised to be a lifelong president. Or, until Aliyev's ambitions stand in the way of the West, and they'll dispose of him as easily as they did of Hosni Mobarak or Muammar Gaddafi.

With such a prospect in view, moves with postal codes look like a child's play. Baku seems to be particularly fond of interfering with Armenia and NKR's affairs without any right to do so. That would be the same as Armenia trying to lecture Georgia over its policy on Russia.

As Arstakh's Deputy Prime Minister Artur Aghabekyan told Radio Liberty earlier, "UN should make a relevant conclusion over Azerbaijan's objection to assisting Syrian Armenians. Other than that, we don't give a damn about Baku's stance." Rough as the statement is, it's a true one, nevertheless.