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AS IF ANDREW WAS NOT IN ENOUGH TROUBLE
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics21061.html
Published: 14:51:50 - 16/03/2011
Andrew is only one of the many friends of Azerbaijan
As if UK trade envoy Prince Andrew is not in enough trouble, he is now
facing scrutiny over his cosy dinners with Ilham Aliyev, president of
Azerbaijan. But it seems unfair to roast only Prince Andrew. Many have
extended that hand of friendship to this oil-rich and human
rights-poor country on the Caspian Sea.
In 2009 former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Azerbaijan,
had a private meeting with Aliyev and is thought to have accepted
£90,000 for a speaking engagement there. There is a Conservative
Friends of Azerbaijan group to foster relations, and the Lib-Dems go
one further. Last year the party received £11,500 in donations from
The European Azerbaijan Society, an NGO run by LSE-educated Tale
Heydarov, which promotes his country's interests to the world. His
wealthy father Kamaladdin Heydarov also runs Azerbaijan's Emergency
Ministry - `widely viewed as a cash cow for Baku's elite, and the
Heydarov family in particular,' as a WikiLeaked US cable put it.A
spokesman for The European Azerbaijan Society insists it does not
receive any funding from the state of Azerbaijan.
From: A. Papazian
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics21061.html
Published: 14:51:50 - 16/03/2011
Andrew is only one of the many friends of Azerbaijan
As if UK trade envoy Prince Andrew is not in enough trouble, he is now
facing scrutiny over his cosy dinners with Ilham Aliyev, president of
Azerbaijan. But it seems unfair to roast only Prince Andrew. Many have
extended that hand of friendship to this oil-rich and human
rights-poor country on the Caspian Sea.
In 2009 former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Azerbaijan,
had a private meeting with Aliyev and is thought to have accepted
£90,000 for a speaking engagement there. There is a Conservative
Friends of Azerbaijan group to foster relations, and the Lib-Dems go
one further. Last year the party received £11,500 in donations from
The European Azerbaijan Society, an NGO run by LSE-educated Tale
Heydarov, which promotes his country's interests to the world. His
wealthy father Kamaladdin Heydarov also runs Azerbaijan's Emergency
Ministry - `widely viewed as a cash cow for Baku's elite, and the
Heydarov family in particular,' as a WikiLeaked US cable put it.A
spokesman for The European Azerbaijan Society insists it does not
receive any funding from the state of Azerbaijan.
From: A. Papazian