President Ilham Aliev’s Guilty Look

PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIEV’S GUILTY LOOK

Aysor
Nov 23 2009
Armenia

I was one of the journalists invited to cover the Munich talks on
November 22. Armenia’s President Serge Sargsyan seemed to be a little
late while OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and Azerbaijan’s President
Ilham Aliev were standing in the hall, just close to the meeting-room.

President Aliev was standing pensive and silent. It was something I
do know very well – just in a sudden I realized; it was a one of my
9-year-old son’s face when he is going to do something contrary to
the canons of our family rules. That was a real face and look of a
guilty student.

I thought it was unusual, but at the same time, actually, it looks like
he knows that international community has its own rules. And something
suitable to Baku ‘life-style’ will be sort ill with international
lay-out. Well, that certainly didn’t take long to wait, besides…

I am a journalist, not expert on negotiations or a metoposcopist. But
President Ilham Aliev’s guilty look certainly meant the negotiations
would be again of no effect as he himself questions whether he took
a right step.