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    WASHINGTON POST'S COVERAGE OF DEVELOPMENTS IN AZERBAIJAN IS BIASED -- EMBASSY

    Trend News Agency (Baku, Azerbaijan)
    December 22, 2014 Monday

    Dec. 22--The coverage of the developments in Azerbaijan by the US
    Washington Post newspaper reflects neither widely acknowledged success
    nor the robust US-Azerbaijan partnership, Counselor of Azerbaijani
    embassy in the US Mammad Talibov said in his article published in
    that newspaper.

    "Contrary to the assertion in the Dec. 12 editorial "Dystopia on
    the Caspian," the Azerbaijani people today are fulfilling their
    centuries-old aspirations by building a prosperous, stable, free and
    a truly independent nation," said the article.

    Talibov said the case of journalist Khadija Ismayilova is going through
    Azerbaijan's legal system. As recent events in the United States have
    shown, legal decisions are not always popular and, in some cases,
    even spark mass protests, according to the counselor.

    Under any circumstances, the process must be respected in Azerbaijan
    and in the United States, and all citizens, including journalists,
    should be equal before the laws of the land, according to the article.

    "I believe we'd all agree that promotion of human rights and democracy
    is best done when one leads by example rather than by mentoring,"
    he said. "This is especially true when the United States speaks to
    its friends, including

    Azerbaijan."

    Talibov added that voicing concern for humanitarian needs of hundreds
    of thousands of Azerbaijanis displaced as a result of the Armenian
    occupation would go a long way.

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