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RELATIONS BETWEEN BAKU AND WASHINGTON ARE BAD ON A NUMBER OF FRONTS: THOMAS DE WAAL
Panorama.am
04/05/2010
Relations between Baku and Washington are bad on a number of fronts,
Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said in an interview to
Mediamax Agency.
"Relations between Baku and Washington are bad on a number of fronts.
There are two obvious symptoms: the persistent failure to appoint a
new US ambassador to Baku and the fact that President Aliev was not
invited to the Washington summit in April (evidently because there
was a belief that he would interfere with attempts to negotiate a
new deal between Armenia and Turkey)," Thomas de Waal said.
According to the expert, nowadays, Baku does not react quietly to what
it perceives as snubs from foreign powers but makes its displeasure
obvious.
"Another symptom of the bad relationship is that US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton personally raised the issue of the two young jailed
bloggers. It would be very easy for the Azerbaijani government to
let them free as a gesture to Western countries but it did nothing,"
Thomas de Waal highlighted.
Remind that official Baku, particularly President Aliyev and many other
officials publicly expressed discontent over US policy to Azerbaijan
and even questioned the expediency of US co-chairmanship to the OSCE
Minsk Group.
Panorama.am
04/05/2010
Relations between Baku and Washington are bad on a number of fronts,
Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said in an interview to
Mediamax Agency.
"Relations between Baku and Washington are bad on a number of fronts.
There are two obvious symptoms: the persistent failure to appoint a
new US ambassador to Baku and the fact that President Aliev was not
invited to the Washington summit in April (evidently because there
was a belief that he would interfere with attempts to negotiate a
new deal between Armenia and Turkey)," Thomas de Waal said.
According to the expert, nowadays, Baku does not react quietly to what
it perceives as snubs from foreign powers but makes its displeasure
obvious.
"Another symptom of the bad relationship is that US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton personally raised the issue of the two young jailed
bloggers. It would be very easy for the Azerbaijani government to
let them free as a gesture to Western countries but it did nothing,"
Thomas de Waal highlighted.
Remind that official Baku, particularly President Aliyev and many other
officials publicly expressed discontent over US policy to Azerbaijan
and even questioned the expediency of US co-chairmanship to the OSCE
Minsk Group.