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  • BAKU: Azerbaijan Is Not Israel'S "Secret Staging Ground", Embassy Sa

    AZERBAIJAN IS NOT ISRAEL'S "SECRET STAGING GROUND", EMBASSY SAYS

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    April 2 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijani embassy in Washington has strongly denied the report by
    Foreign Policy magazine that Azerbaijan had allegedly provided Israel
    with its airfields near the border with Iran.

    "I was most surprised to read a very provocative and unsubstantiated
    article by Mark Perry in your publication ("Israel's Secret Staging
    Ground"). The author arrives at wide ranging allegations based on
    unnamed sources and rather convoluted commentary. Clearly upset about
    Azerbaijan's friendly relations with Israel, Perry, for some reason,
    equates a historic friendship between the Azerbaijani and Jewish
    people into preparing for a war against Iran", Nargiz Gurbanova,
    a counselor at Azerbaijan's embassy in Washington, said Monday in an
    article in the Foreign Policy.

    According to her, "this unreasonable accusation makes no sense in terms
    of geography -- Azerbaijan doesn't border Israel and contradicts the
    clearly stated policy of Azerbaijan not to allow use of its territory
    against any neighbour".

    "In fact, Azerbaijan's commitment to promoting regional peace has been
    demonstrated by its involvement in the ongoing talks with Armenia for
    the last two decades in spite of the latter's illegal occupation of
    the internationally recognized Azerbaijani lands. Perry's article is
    an interesting piece of fiction. Whether it was driven by a special
    political agenda or vivid imagination, your publication seems as an
    odd choice for such speculative writing", Gurbanova pointed out.

    Azerbaijani Defence Ministry earlier denied the report. A spokesman
    for the Ministry Teymur Abdullayev said that the article was baseless
    and called it "an invention not corresponding to reality".

    Earlier, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Social and Political
    Department Chief Ali Hasanov told media that Azerbaijan's territory
    will never be used for any actions against Iran.

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