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AZERI PRESIDENT SAYS ARMENIA IS A COUNTRY "OF NO VALUE"
Updated News
Nov 20 2012
(Reuters) Azeri President Ilham Aliyev took his verbal attacks on arch
enemy Armenia onto Twitter on Tuesday, calling his Caucasus neighbor a
"colony" run from abroad.
Aliyev and his government have tried to boost their presence online,
where dissident Azeri bloggers and members of the Armenian diaspora
regularly attack Azerbaijan's human rights record.
"Our main enemy is the Armenian lobby ... Armenia as a country is
of no value. It is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad,
a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands,"
Aliyev said in a tweet microblog.
War between ethnic Azeris and Armenians erupted in 1991 over
Azerbaijan's mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region,
which Armenian-backed forces seized along with seven surrounding
Azeri districts.
A truce was signed in 1994, but there was no peace treaty, and violence
still flares sporadically along Azerbaijan's border with Armenia and
a frontline with Nagorno-Karabakh.
Oil-producing Azerbaijan, host to oil majors BP, Chevron and
ExxonMobil, frequently threatens to take the mountain enclave back
by force, and has spent heavily on its armed forces, though it says
it favors diplomacy.
Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to make peace in internationally mediated
talks last year and have been hurling angry rhetoric at each other
ever since, although analysts do not yet detect any drift into a new
armed conflict.
"We are conducting talks and at the same time building up our
military strength," Aliyev said in another tweet, adding that Baku
would continue its efforts to isolate its neighbor.
"Azerbaijan grows stronger and more powerful by the year, while Armenia
weakens and declines every year ... We will continue our efforts to
isolate Armenia."
Armenian officials were not available to comment on the statements.
Nagorno-Karabakh has run its own affairs with heavy Armenian military
and financial backing since the war.
Azerbaijan accuses ethnic Armenian lobbies, active in France and the
United States, of blackening its international image and has worked to
counter this, notably by hosting the Eurovision song contest this year.
http://updatednews.ca/2012/11/20/azeri-president-says-armenia-is-a-country-of-no-value/
From: Baghdasarian
Updated News
Nov 20 2012
(Reuters) Azeri President Ilham Aliyev took his verbal attacks on arch
enemy Armenia onto Twitter on Tuesday, calling his Caucasus neighbor a
"colony" run from abroad.
Aliyev and his government have tried to boost their presence online,
where dissident Azeri bloggers and members of the Armenian diaspora
regularly attack Azerbaijan's human rights record.
"Our main enemy is the Armenian lobby ... Armenia as a country is
of no value. It is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad,
a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands,"
Aliyev said in a tweet microblog.
War between ethnic Azeris and Armenians erupted in 1991 over
Azerbaijan's mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region,
which Armenian-backed forces seized along with seven surrounding
Azeri districts.
A truce was signed in 1994, but there was no peace treaty, and violence
still flares sporadically along Azerbaijan's border with Armenia and
a frontline with Nagorno-Karabakh.
Oil-producing Azerbaijan, host to oil majors BP, Chevron and
ExxonMobil, frequently threatens to take the mountain enclave back
by force, and has spent heavily on its armed forces, though it says
it favors diplomacy.
Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to make peace in internationally mediated
talks last year and have been hurling angry rhetoric at each other
ever since, although analysts do not yet detect any drift into a new
armed conflict.
"We are conducting talks and at the same time building up our
military strength," Aliyev said in another tweet, adding that Baku
would continue its efforts to isolate its neighbor.
"Azerbaijan grows stronger and more powerful by the year, while Armenia
weakens and declines every year ... We will continue our efforts to
isolate Armenia."
Armenian officials were not available to comment on the statements.
Nagorno-Karabakh has run its own affairs with heavy Armenian military
and financial backing since the war.
Azerbaijan accuses ethnic Armenian lobbies, active in France and the
United States, of blackening its international image and has worked to
counter this, notably by hosting the Eurovision song contest this year.
http://updatednews.ca/2012/11/20/azeri-president-says-armenia-is-a-country-of-no-value/
From: Baghdasarian