Lider TV, Azerbaijan
Sept 29 2011

Analyst says USA to use Armenia against Azerbaijan

An Azerbaijani analyst has said that Armenia is an instrument the USA
will use against Azerbaijan.

Speaking on the privately-owned pro-government Lider TV on 29
September, the director of the Political Innovation and Technology
Centre, Mubariz Ahmadoglu, said that “Armenia is an instrument that
has stood the test of time”.

“The USA needs an instrument like this to use it against whichever
country it wants,” he said and added that the USA is helping Armenia
in order to use it against Azerbaijan in the future as well.

The TV presenter said the USA had turned a blind eye to election fraud
in Armenia back in 2008, to the killing of civilians following the
elections in March and had put pressure on the OSCE Election
Observation Mission to ignore the irregularities.

Ahmadoglu said the USA’s “indifference” to the killing of civilians in
the March 2008 protests “was a slap in the face of democracy”.

The analyst said the reason why the USA had supported Sargsyan in the
2008 election was that it truly believed that Sargsyan would get
Armenia away from Russia’s influence and bring it closer to Turkey.
“The USA miscalculated Sargsyan’s relations with the Armenian lobby in
the USA back then. Armenians used America’s expectations to further
their own interests and made the USA a partner in their dirty games,”
the analyst said.

Ahmadoglu also spoke about the “negative influence” of the Zurich
protocols on establishing relations between Armenia and Turkey on the
Karabakh settlement, adding that the Zurich protocols had been
initiated by the USA.

[translated from Azeri]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress