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AZERBAIJAN SLAMS U.S. INTERFERENCE IN ITS INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Interfax, Russia
Oct 16 2014
: BAKU. Oct 16
Baku considers Washington's insistent attempts to interfere in
Azerbaijan's internal affairs unacceptable, Azeri Foreign Ministry
press secretary Hikmet Hajiyev said in a statement in response to an
October 15 commentary by the U.S. Department of State's spokesperson
criticizing human rights observances in Azerbaijan.
"Azerbaijan fully ensures the rule of law and independence of its
judicial system. And this groundless interference by the American side
grossly violates the rule of law and U.S. commitments," Hajiyev said.
Attempts to use human rights as a foreign political instrument
and a way to put political pressure have long lost their power and
credibility, he said.
Hajiyev stressed that politicization of human rights and a biased
approach toward the matter with the use of double standards is
unacceptable to Azerbaijan.
"It would be laudable if countries acting as heralds of human
rights, particularly the U.S., paid attention to the violation of the
fundamental rights of Azeri refugees and displaced persons resulting
from Armenia's occupation and facts of bloody ethnic cleansing
committed on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan," he said.
From: A. Papazian
Interfax, Russia
Oct 16 2014
: BAKU. Oct 16
Baku considers Washington's insistent attempts to interfere in
Azerbaijan's internal affairs unacceptable, Azeri Foreign Ministry
press secretary Hikmet Hajiyev said in a statement in response to an
October 15 commentary by the U.S. Department of State's spokesperson
criticizing human rights observances in Azerbaijan.
"Azerbaijan fully ensures the rule of law and independence of its
judicial system. And this groundless interference by the American side
grossly violates the rule of law and U.S. commitments," Hajiyev said.
Attempts to use human rights as a foreign political instrument
and a way to put political pressure have long lost their power and
credibility, he said.
Hajiyev stressed that politicization of human rights and a biased
approach toward the matter with the use of double standards is
unacceptable to Azerbaijan.
"It would be laudable if countries acting as heralds of human
rights, particularly the U.S., paid attention to the violation of the
fundamental rights of Azeri refugees and displaced persons resulting
from Armenia's occupation and facts of bloody ethnic cleansing
committed on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan," he said.
From: A. Papazian