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"AXE" DIPLOMACY & PARADOXICAL ARGUMENTS OF AZERBAIJAN
Erik Yeritsyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27288.html
Published: 11:04:55 - 04/09/2012
The extradition of "Ramil Safarov" phenomenon, a former and
present army officer of Azerbaijan has recently been one of the
most sensational issues of the international mass media. While the
whole world criticizes Azerbaijan and Hungary for threatening the
regional security the formers refer to some sort of international
conventions trying to justify their outrageous deal. It seems as if
the international community has no clue about the existing conventions
and the "political duo" is trying to make some "discoveries" as for
Armenia, as well as for the World in general. Anyway, there is no
need to dwell into the analysis of the act being right or wrong as the
international attitude is certain and unanimous: there isn't perhaps
a single prestigious newspaper, journal or a news agency in the world
that hasn't yet condemned Azerbaijan and Hungary for their "humanism".
But the point is that Azerbaijan is constantly messing its things up
with inexplicable announcements of their officials.
Studying the announcement of the Presidential Administration of
Azerbaijan in response to the US State Department criticism on the
above-mentioned scandal, we find a very interesting excerpt. They
say that in accordance with Article 57.3 of the Criminal Code of the
Republic of Azerbaijan the punishment of a convict who is serving a
life sentence can be replaced by court with an imprisonment up till
twenty five years of imprisonment, and as Ramil Safarov already
served for 8.5 years in Hungary, the decision of the President to
pardon Safarov should be regarded as an imprisonment for as long as
he already served in Hungary.
I guess there is no doubt that this announcement is an expression of
an obvious cynicism on the official level, but calling stupidity the
things preceding these steps will be too merciful for Azerbaijan.
Let's for a moment accept the above-mentioned "arguments" of the
administration and understand one simple fact. According to this
announcement Azerbaijan in fact regards Safarov as a convict and
sentences him to 8.5 years. They of course pardon him immediately,
but in any case they do sentence that "person" to 8.5 years. Then
let's try to answer several attention-grabbing questions. Is there
any state in the world that compensates the salary of a convict, or is
there a country that dares to promote criminal-lieutenants to the rank
of major, or perhaps is there a country that hands over apartments to
the criminals after they serve their term? In the end let's face it,
is there a more "democratic", "humanistic" or "CIVILIZED" country
than Azerbaijan?
Sometimes it's quite hard to understand the Azerbaijani logic
nevertheless some circumstances occasionally cover the lack of their
governance. The Azerbaijanis have not yet formed their ethno genesis
but we demand and expect capability of a serious governance (ruling is
a better option in their case). It's hard to imagine the consequences
of the initiated madness, but one thing is clear: Azerbaijan won't go
through this mess smoothly, because there isn't a single state that
supports this cynical trade between the Azerbaijani Khanate and the
European, EU-member Hungary.
P.S. Even Turkey stays aloof of the current developments keeping
in mind a universal principle: "Never go near the drowning ship,
it will drown you too".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Erik Yeritsyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27288.html
Published: 11:04:55 - 04/09/2012
The extradition of "Ramil Safarov" phenomenon, a former and
present army officer of Azerbaijan has recently been one of the
most sensational issues of the international mass media. While the
whole world criticizes Azerbaijan and Hungary for threatening the
regional security the formers refer to some sort of international
conventions trying to justify their outrageous deal. It seems as if
the international community has no clue about the existing conventions
and the "political duo" is trying to make some "discoveries" as for
Armenia, as well as for the World in general. Anyway, there is no
need to dwell into the analysis of the act being right or wrong as the
international attitude is certain and unanimous: there isn't perhaps
a single prestigious newspaper, journal or a news agency in the world
that hasn't yet condemned Azerbaijan and Hungary for their "humanism".
But the point is that Azerbaijan is constantly messing its things up
with inexplicable announcements of their officials.
Studying the announcement of the Presidential Administration of
Azerbaijan in response to the US State Department criticism on the
above-mentioned scandal, we find a very interesting excerpt. They
say that in accordance with Article 57.3 of the Criminal Code of the
Republic of Azerbaijan the punishment of a convict who is serving a
life sentence can be replaced by court with an imprisonment up till
twenty five years of imprisonment, and as Ramil Safarov already
served for 8.5 years in Hungary, the decision of the President to
pardon Safarov should be regarded as an imprisonment for as long as
he already served in Hungary.
I guess there is no doubt that this announcement is an expression of
an obvious cynicism on the official level, but calling stupidity the
things preceding these steps will be too merciful for Azerbaijan.
Let's for a moment accept the above-mentioned "arguments" of the
administration and understand one simple fact. According to this
announcement Azerbaijan in fact regards Safarov as a convict and
sentences him to 8.5 years. They of course pardon him immediately,
but in any case they do sentence that "person" to 8.5 years. Then
let's try to answer several attention-grabbing questions. Is there
any state in the world that compensates the salary of a convict, or is
there a country that dares to promote criminal-lieutenants to the rank
of major, or perhaps is there a country that hands over apartments to
the criminals after they serve their term? In the end let's face it,
is there a more "democratic", "humanistic" or "CIVILIZED" country
than Azerbaijan?
Sometimes it's quite hard to understand the Azerbaijani logic
nevertheless some circumstances occasionally cover the lack of their
governance. The Azerbaijanis have not yet formed their ethno genesis
but we demand and expect capability of a serious governance (ruling is
a better option in their case). It's hard to imagine the consequences
of the initiated madness, but one thing is clear: Azerbaijan won't go
through this mess smoothly, because there isn't a single state that
supports this cynical trade between the Azerbaijani Khanate and the
European, EU-member Hungary.
P.S. Even Turkey stays aloof of the current developments keeping
in mind a universal principle: "Never go near the drowning ship,
it will drown you too".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress