Trend, Azerbaijan
Feb 1 2007

AZERI OFFICIAL REGRETS US CONGRESSMEN’S DRIVE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN
MASSACRE

Baku, 1 February: US congressmen elected from areas where most of the
population are citizens of Armenian origin are trying to increase
their rating by raising again the issue of the recognition of the
so-called Armenian "genocide" by the country’s legislative body, the
head of the press and information policy department of the
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Tahir Tagizada, has said while
commenting on the submission of a relevant bill by a group of
pro-Armenian congressmen.

The US political system is based exactly on such initiatives, the
diplomat thinks. Tagizada expressed regret that according to the US
constitution, US foreign policy is formed and carried out by the
executive authorities of that country [sentence as published].