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    RASUL GULIYEV RETURNS TO BAKU
    By Tatoul Hakobian

    AZG Armenian Daily #187
    18/10/2005

    He Is Charged With Appropriating $100, Selling Petrol To Armenians
    During Karabakh War and Cooperating With Pro-Armenian Forces

    One of Nakhijevan clan members, former Azerbaijani parliament
    speaker Rasul Guliyev was due to return home from the United States
    on London-Baku charter flight yesterday night. Late Heydar Aliyev
    and Guliyev were in good relations before 1995 until the speaker of
    the parliament embarked on forming his own team within the clan to
    counter the Aliyevs in fight for presidency.

    In his message to the Azeri society, Guliyev, who spearheads
    oppositional Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, said that he does to
    cause bloodshed by his return. "It is possible that there will
    be disturbances at the airport on October 17. We have operative
    information about imminent provocation including an assault on the
    airport," Ramil Usubov, interior minister of Azerbaijan, said. Usubov
    called for the representatives of diplomatic missions and journalists
    to stay away from the airport, as "clashes are probable."

    Yasar Aliyev, deputy head of Baku police, was quoted by the Azeri
    press as saying that nobody will be allowed to enter the area of
    Heydar Aliyev International Airport to meet Rasul Guliyev. Zakir
    Garalov, head prosecutor of Azerbaijan, stated that a special cell
    of European standards was prepared for Guliyev.

    According to RFERL, Guliyev is returning to secure democratic
    parliamentary elections on November 6. He had announced earlier that
    he will return to Baku in company of US congressmen and a group of
    journalists. Rasul Guliyev is charged with appropriating more than $100
    million from the state budget, selling petrol to the Armenians during
    the Nagorno Karabakh war and supporting pro-Armenian forces in America.

    In the face of the upcoming parliamentary elections the Azeri
    authorities emphasize the "fact" of the cooperation of the country's
    opposition and Armenian special services but not the Karabakh
    issue. Sill in August 3, the police arrested Ruslan Basirli, leader of
    Yeni Fikir oppositional party on charge of a coup attempt organized
    in concert with non-governmental American organizations and Armenian
    special services. During the last weeks Ramin Tagiyev and Sayid Nuri,
    the same party's leaders were also arrested.

    President Ilham Aliyev's assessment of the pre-election situation
    is as follows, "Wonderful conditions have been created for the
    elections." The international organizations hold to other views. In
    its report on pre-electoral Azerbaijan, the Human Rights Watch called
    on the Western governments to adopt a tougher line in regard to the
    violence in Azerbaijan.

    The report also writes that the growing violence that the opposition
    activists face from the hands of law-enforcers "casts doubt
    on government's obligation to hold free and just parliamentary
    elections." The report says that the US and EU should "condemn the
    violence in pre-election campaign forestalling further aggravation."

    As it is known, the police quelled three last rallies by Azadleg Union
    beating tens of participants and detaining hundreds. The head of the
    PACE stated in Baku last week that Azerbaijan has not fulfilled the
    proposals of the PACE to hold free and just elections.
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