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WE FRANKLY DON'T CARE ABOUT...PEACE IN KARABAKH,' SAYS US INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
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http://asbarez.com/82095/%e2%80%98we-frankly-don%e2%80%99t-care-about%e2%80%a6peace-in-karabakh%e2%80%99-says-us-official
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
BAKU (Foreign Policy)-An unnamed US intelligence officer was quoted
late last week in The Foreign Policy Journal as saying the United
States was only concerned with Azerbaijan vis-a-vis its role in
the war in Afghanistan and did not care about peace in Karabakh or
democracy in Azerbaijan.
The article, written by Thomas Glotz, the author of Azerbaijan Diary,
revealed paraphrased details of a conversation between Glotz and the
intelligence officer in Baku.
"We frankly don't care about human rights or democracy-building,
or Israel and Turkey, or peace in Karabakh or Georgia, or even
Azerbaijani energy," the unnamed source said, according to Glotz.
"There is only one thing we really care about right now, and that
is Afghanistan."
In his article, titled "Bad Blood in Baku," Glotz said he met the
official over a "few bears" against the backdrop of an emergency
visit to the Azeri capital by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The
American Defense Chief met with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev to pass
on a letter from President Barack Obama aimed ostensibly at smoothing
over relations with the oil-rich Caspian Sea Country.
____ Editor's Note: While the piece, which can be read here, has
an exclusively pro-Azeri slant, we are offering it to our readers
to introduce yet another foreign policy approach that demonstrates
Washington's real interests in the Caucasus and how detrimental those
interests could be to Armenia. Below is the link to the article.
From: A. Papazian
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http://asbarez.com/82095/%e2%80%98we-frankly-don%e2%80%99t-care-about%e2%80%a6peace-in-karabakh%e2%80%99-says-us-official
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
BAKU (Foreign Policy)-An unnamed US intelligence officer was quoted
late last week in The Foreign Policy Journal as saying the United
States was only concerned with Azerbaijan vis-a-vis its role in
the war in Afghanistan and did not care about peace in Karabakh or
democracy in Azerbaijan.
The article, written by Thomas Glotz, the author of Azerbaijan Diary,
revealed paraphrased details of a conversation between Glotz and the
intelligence officer in Baku.
"We frankly don't care about human rights or democracy-building,
or Israel and Turkey, or peace in Karabakh or Georgia, or even
Azerbaijani energy," the unnamed source said, according to Glotz.
"There is only one thing we really care about right now, and that
is Afghanistan."
In his article, titled "Bad Blood in Baku," Glotz said he met the
official over a "few bears" against the backdrop of an emergency
visit to the Azeri capital by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The
American Defense Chief met with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev to pass
on a letter from President Barack Obama aimed ostensibly at smoothing
over relations with the oil-rich Caspian Sea Country.
____ Editor's Note: While the piece, which can be read here, has
an exclusively pro-Azeri slant, we are offering it to our readers
to introduce yet another foreign policy approach that demonstrates
Washington's real interests in the Caucasus and how detrimental those
interests could be to Armenia. Below is the link to the article.
From: A. Papazian