Baku believes that Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Azerbaijan "regardless of the Armenian pressure"

PanARMENIAN.Net - If President of France doesn't visit Baku, according to Azerbaijan, it will mean, that "it gave away to the Armenian pressure". According to newspaper "Echo", France has a strong and rather influential Armenian Diaspora supporting Armenia: "In spite of everything though the French leader is planning to visit Azerbaijan, after the previous President of France paid an official visit to Yerevan. This is certainly worth attention, as it speaks of the fact that President of France implements a pragmatic policy and acts against the pro-Armenian powers. The existence of balanced politics is undeniable".

By the way it is worth mentioning that the visits do not depend or in any case almost do not depend on either party's wish. Azerbaijan thinks that hydrocarbon may overweight anything, including moral criteria, and hope to resolve the Karabakh Conflict to its favor. France, being included in OSCE Minsk Group, "may be of essential help" to Azerbaijan. In any case Baku has great expectations regarding the above-mentioned. True, if Sarkozy visits Azerbaijan, he will be expected to confirm the stability of the Azeri borders. However, another possibility is that Paris may once again underline, that the agreement should be reached between conflicting parties. Azerbaijan, of course, would not be happy with such variant. According to Azai Guliyev, Baku has done its best. "We diversify the routs of hydrocarbon resources to Europe; we have fulfilled the BTC (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) project, we are involved in all the projects carried out by NATO, as well as we became one of the first Islamic countries taking part in peacemaking operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. Unfortunately, our country hasn't got any response yet, i.e. support to the Azeri position," thinks the deputy. In fact once again Baku is trying to achieve its aim by the help of its gas and oil, forgetting that the only country that can really manipulate and dictate its rules and conditions is Russia, but never Azerbaijan. If taking into consideration "tenuous" relationship of France with Baku's major ally Turkey, expectations about N. Sarkozy's supposed visit are more than unreasonable.

The whole matter is that President of France, as well as the European Union are well-aware of Azerbaijan's domestic situation, just like of the reasons of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Azeri Press is free to write that another official representative of this or that country has announced about the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, or that Europe and the whole world will not survive without Baku's energy supply, these are just empty words. Pragmatic Sarkozy will act only to its country's and Europe's favor, where by the way he has one of the leading roles. If Baku really wants to get something from EU, it must first of all change its policy and stop denying the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh is an independent state, not depending on Baku's oil, for sake of which it was given to Azerbaijan in 1920, the oil, which today makes only the 0.7% of the world oil stock.