RULING NEW AZERBAIJAN PARTY: FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT IS AN ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY SEPARATION, ETHNIC CLEANSING AND AGGRESSION
17 January 2013, 20:09 (GMT+04:00)
Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 17 / Trend E. Mehdiyev /
Azerbaijan has repeatedly talked about the prejudice and bias of
reports of several international organizations, one of which, is
surely the Freedom House organization, Deputy Chairman – Executive
Secretary of the New Azerbaijan party, Ali Ahmedov told the website
of the party on Thursday, expressing attitude to the fact of the
separatist Nagorno Karabakh regime being included in the list of
partly free countries in Freedom Houses’s last report.
“Bias of reports of this organization has been proved not only by
Azerbaijan, but also other countries as well. Biased position of the
organization in Azerbaijan has long been known,” Ahmedov said.
Inclusion in the list of the regime existing in the occupied
Nagorno-Karabakh is an indicator of “objectivity” and attitude towards
Azerbaijan, Ahmedov said.
According to him, regardless of scale for estimation of the separatist
regime, this fact alone is enough for people to form a complete image
of the nature of this organization.
The regime in the occupied Nagorno Karabakh is not recognized and will
not be recognized by any state or serious international organization,
deputy chairman of the NAP said. Therefore, the fact of the Freedom
House organization describing the occupied territory as “partly free
country” cannot but cause surprise.
“I believe this approach gives a fairly good reason to doubt the
objectivity of the organization. I consider it necessary to point that
the reference in the report of Freedom House to “Nagorno-Karabakh
“as a separate entity should be regarded as an attempt to justify
the separation, ethnic cleansing and aggression. Such attempts
hinder the efforts of the UN and the OSCE and the policy on the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution, and are
heightening tensions and confrontation in the region. Azerbaijani
public has always rightly protested against biased estimates of
preconceived international organizations. I believe the latest
Freedom House report is even a more well-ground argument for protests
of Azerbaijani people. It should also be noted that sometimes the
radical wing of the opposition gladly assumes the role of advocate
for biased organizations defaming Azerbaijan. I find this to be an
abhorrent form of political struggle. Supporting the position of
organization recognizing the fictional regime of “Nagorno-Karabakh”,
including it in its prejudiced and biased report, is nothing but a
violation of national interests,” the deputy chairman of the NAP said.