Azerbaijan once again tries to interfere in the domestic affairs of Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Minister of Foreign Affairs decided not to waste time on trifles and addressed a note to the OSCE, Council of Europe and the European Parliament, which contains nothing else but lie. As the Press-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Khazar Ibrahim announced, the note concerned "the organizations of the polling stations and the voting of the Armenia president in Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan". It was mentioned in the note that "this action is one more proof of the fact that Armenia has occupied a part of Azerbaijan and continues its illegal activities". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has asked the international organizations to carefully investigate this illegal activity, to take into account all the events during making its reports and to take the appropriate measures." At least Khazar Ibrahim didn't say that the elections were not fair. We are not going to make excuses for the fact that Nagorno Karabakh didn't elect the president of Armenia.

There are no doubts that very soon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan will announce that it has a reply from the OSCE, PACE, and the European Parliament, which takes into consideration the viewpoint of Azerbaijan. However, seriously speaking, Baku once again tries to interfere in the domestic affairs of the sovereign country. How long this will last depends on the Armenian authorities only. The truth is though, that there is a hope that the European institutions have already got used to such "statements" and simply ignore them. One more advice of Baku: Azerbaijan will also be holding presidential elections very soon, which will be held with such rude violations, that neither Georgia, nor Armenia could ever think of. So it is better if our neighboring country keeps its comments to itself and thinks of its own business.

Deputy Zakhit Orudj, had his word too. He called the Azeri authorities to turn down the cooperation with the OSCE. The Deputy thinks that the statements made by the observers of the OSCE mission were previously made up and reveal the true colors of this organization. "Azerbaijan shouldn't invite them to observe the elections," said Zakhid Orudj.

In its response the speaker Oktai Assadov said that Azerbaijan is an open society and any international organization may observe the elections in our country. "The difference between Armenia and Azerbaijan is that their political parties and national political oppositions are afraid of the authorities to come up with announcements in front of the international organizations on their resentments. "In Azerbaijan there are no such limitations for the opposition in Azerbaijan," said Assadov. The most interesting thing is that journalists are being imprisoned in Azerbaijan, there are political prisoners in the country and no real opposition at all, and still Assadov speaks of a "free and democratic" Azerbaijan. However, this is already his own affair, and Armenia is not going to dictate its neighbor what to do and how to do.

Meanwhile, the response to "the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan" came from where it was supposed to come, from Nagorno Karabakh. "On the territory of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh no polls were established for the presidential elections in Armenia. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov, as well as the Secretary of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan Natik Mamedov via mass media confuses the international community with unfounded announcements saying that within the frame of the presidential elections in Armenia polls were also established in the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. The Azeri authorities, being faithful to their policy of misinformation and political provocations, once again do their best to slander Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. This time the occasion was given by the presidential elections in Armenia, which were assessed by the international observers as free, fair and democratic," mentions the announcement made by Nasibyan.

Nasibyan pays attention to the fact that these recurrent provocations of Azerbaijan were left unnoticed, since the international observers, during the realization of their mission in Armenia, have visited almost all the polling stations and were assured that they had been established exceptionally in the territory of RA.