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| 15:00:39 | 12-04-2005 | Politics |
IS AZERBAIJAN GOING TO EXERT PRESSURE ON ARMENIA?
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is arriving in Baku this Tuesday.
Well known sources of information report that the head of Pentagon is
arriving to discuss the deployment US military bases in Azerbaijan. Thus,
Assistant News cites US Professor of International Relations Hakim Kaufman:
«To date the US spreads out troops in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Iraq
preparing for the war against Iran.
Sunday Times weekly adheres to the same opinion.
As for the military bases in Azerbaijan, they will perform several more
functions such as guard of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, for
example. And last but not least, Azerbaijan is going to use the presence US
military bases as an instrument for exerting pressure on Armenia in Karabakh
issue.