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RUSSIA IS PLANNING SAFAROV 2
Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Comments - 20 February 2015, 15:09
Alexander Lukashevich, the official representative of the Russian
foreign minister, told the Azerbaijani AP News Agency that Russia
will discuss with its Armenian partners handing of the Azerbaijani
saboteur Dilham Askerov to Azerbaijan.
A few days ago the U.S. Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland announced
first in Baku, then in Yerevan that if Yerevan makes a humanitarian
step and hand the saboteurs. Nuland noted that they committed a
horrible crime.
After Nuland's statement a real official-expert campaign started in
Armenia and Artsakh that it is not the United States' business and
the United States is promoting the interests of Azerbaijan and so on.
Interestingly, at the same time Azerbaijan was highly dissatisfied
with the U.S. policy in Artsakh. In other words, some officials and
experts in Armenia are equally dissatisfied with the U.S. policy.
Meanwhile, after Lavrov's statement, which was a few months ago, nobody
in Azerbaijan and Armenia complained though it seemed that Armenia and
Artsakh should have treated Lavrov the way they later treated Nuland.
Moreover, there are stronger reasons to treat Lavrov more toughly.
Unlike the United States, Russia has signed a document on strategic
partnership with Armenia, has commitments to Armenia, namely prevention
of its citizens from sabotages against Armenia.
However, if Russia does not hesitate to take under its aegis Permyakov
who killed 7 people, Askerov's crime should be just a misunderstanding
to them and, Moscow thinks, Armenia and Artsakh have absolutely no
reason to hold him.
So now the official representative of the MFA says that Lavrov's
statement is valid, and the issue will be discussed with the Armenian
side. And there is no word from Armenia or Artsakh. Well, Lavrov
is neither from the United States, nor Europe. He is from Moscow so
no word.
Moreover, it is not ruled out that the Russians have even started
discussing the issue with the Armenian side and therefore there was an
attack on Nuland because the United States could actually hinder the
process of the Armenian-Russian negotiations on handing the saboteur.
And it is not ruled out that Nuland's statements were made in Yerevan
and Baku to thwart these negotiations, to publicize the issue and
bring it to public focus, in order to prevent another Safarov case
when Russia, Azerbaijan and Hungary got through Safarov's extradition
and glorification and only then did official Yerevan wake up and start
throwing eggs at some embassy in Yerevan than had some relationship to
Hungary, demonstrating to the society that they were given a surprise
and were angered but what else could they do aside from throwing eggs?
Now the United States is trying to wake up the society of Armenia and
Artsakh to make sure that the public does not wake up one beautiful
morning and watch how the Azerbaijani saboteur handed to Russia is
holding an interview with some Russian Life News.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/33661#sthash.EJcLPHD8.dpuf
Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Comments - 20 February 2015, 15:09
Alexander Lukashevich, the official representative of the Russian
foreign minister, told the Azerbaijani AP News Agency that Russia
will discuss with its Armenian partners handing of the Azerbaijani
saboteur Dilham Askerov to Azerbaijan.
A few days ago the U.S. Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland announced
first in Baku, then in Yerevan that if Yerevan makes a humanitarian
step and hand the saboteurs. Nuland noted that they committed a
horrible crime.
After Nuland's statement a real official-expert campaign started in
Armenia and Artsakh that it is not the United States' business and
the United States is promoting the interests of Azerbaijan and so on.
Interestingly, at the same time Azerbaijan was highly dissatisfied
with the U.S. policy in Artsakh. In other words, some officials and
experts in Armenia are equally dissatisfied with the U.S. policy.
Meanwhile, after Lavrov's statement, which was a few months ago, nobody
in Azerbaijan and Armenia complained though it seemed that Armenia and
Artsakh should have treated Lavrov the way they later treated Nuland.
Moreover, there are stronger reasons to treat Lavrov more toughly.
Unlike the United States, Russia has signed a document on strategic
partnership with Armenia, has commitments to Armenia, namely prevention
of its citizens from sabotages against Armenia.
However, if Russia does not hesitate to take under its aegis Permyakov
who killed 7 people, Askerov's crime should be just a misunderstanding
to them and, Moscow thinks, Armenia and Artsakh have absolutely no
reason to hold him.
So now the official representative of the MFA says that Lavrov's
statement is valid, and the issue will be discussed with the Armenian
side. And there is no word from Armenia or Artsakh. Well, Lavrov
is neither from the United States, nor Europe. He is from Moscow so
no word.
Moreover, it is not ruled out that the Russians have even started
discussing the issue with the Armenian side and therefore there was an
attack on Nuland because the United States could actually hinder the
process of the Armenian-Russian negotiations on handing the saboteur.
And it is not ruled out that Nuland's statements were made in Yerevan
and Baku to thwart these negotiations, to publicize the issue and
bring it to public focus, in order to prevent another Safarov case
when Russia, Azerbaijan and Hungary got through Safarov's extradition
and glorification and only then did official Yerevan wake up and start
throwing eggs at some embassy in Yerevan than had some relationship to
Hungary, demonstrating to the society that they were given a surprise
and were angered but what else could they do aside from throwing eggs?
Now the United States is trying to wake up the society of Armenia and
Artsakh to make sure that the public does not wake up one beautiful
morning and watch how the Azerbaijani saboteur handed to Russia is
holding an interview with some Russian Life News.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/33661#sthash.EJcLPHD8.dpuf