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HAMPARIAN: CITIZENS OF AZERBAIJAN AND THEIR NEIGHBORS IN ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH DESERVE BETTER THAN A PETRO-MONARCHY
12:34, 11 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian's offered a comment regarding
presidential elections in Azerbaijan and the State Department's
assessment issued earlier on October 10, Armenpress reports.
"The State Department says Azerbaijan's election 'fell short of
international standards,' while, in truth, it didn't even come close.
This wasn't an election at all, but rather a poorly stage-managed
spectacle, designed to provide some semblance of political cover for
an international community that, sadly, long ago chose to stand aside
as the Aliyevs consolidate their private ownership of Azerbaijan and
push their one-family rule into a second half-century. The citizens
of Azerbaijan - and their neighbors in Armenia and Artsakh - deserve
better than a petro-monarchy that siphons off the nation's wealth,
abuses its own citizens, is driving the region toward renewed war,"
said Hamparian.
© 2009 ARMENPRESS.am
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/736200/hamparian-citizens-of-azerbaijan-and-their-neighbors-in-armenia-and-artsakh-deserve-better-than-a.html
12:34, 11 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian's offered a comment regarding
presidential elections in Azerbaijan and the State Department's
assessment issued earlier on October 10, Armenpress reports.
"The State Department says Azerbaijan's election 'fell short of
international standards,' while, in truth, it didn't even come close.
This wasn't an election at all, but rather a poorly stage-managed
spectacle, designed to provide some semblance of political cover for
an international community that, sadly, long ago chose to stand aside
as the Aliyevs consolidate their private ownership of Azerbaijan and
push their one-family rule into a second half-century. The citizens
of Azerbaijan - and their neighbors in Armenia and Artsakh - deserve
better than a petro-monarchy that siphons off the nation's wealth,
abuses its own citizens, is driving the region toward renewed war,"
said Hamparian.
© 2009 ARMENPRESS.am
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/736200/hamparian-citizens-of-azerbaijan-and-their-neighbors-in-armenia-and-artsakh-deserve-better-than-a.html