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Elnur Aslanov: â€œFreedom House serves the interests of those who allocate $8 million in aid to Nagorno Karabakh separatistsâ€

14 December 2009 13:11 (UTC +04:00)

Therefore, there is no sense to comment on the map complied by a group of hypocrites, who attempt to earn more money,â€ chief of department of political analysis and information provision of the Presidential Administration Elnur Aslanov told APA.
The Freedom House in its recent report â€œMap of Freedom - 2009â€ indicated Armenia as â€œPartly Freeâ€ and Nagorno Karabakh was designated under some joint rule of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Elnur Aslanov notes that according to the basic principles of the international law, the organization, which fails to determine that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijanâ€™s territory and regards Armenia â€“ the aggressor state, which carried out ethnic cleansing policy in Azerbaijani territories - as â€œpartly freeâ€, is a classical example of double standards.
â€œThey close eyes to the political prisoners, among whom there are 16 participants of the pre-election demonstration, 5 parliamentarians, 1 newspaper editor arrested in Yerevan after the March 1 happenings. How can Nagorno Karabakh be regarded as â€œpartly freeâ€ while almost all of its population consists of the servicemen and the elections and other democratic institutions there are not recognized by the international community? Why Freedom House keeps silent while Armenia is forcing one million Azerbaijanis to live as displaced persons? Where was Freedom House when Armenian nationalists and separatists destroyed Azerbaijani cultural heritage in the territory of Karabakh? Why Freedom House disappeared when the captured Azerbaijani women and children suffered from severe tortures? Why Freedom House didnâ€™t take interest in the living conditions of Azerbaijani refugees? Is it possible to believe this organization after all that? Everybody knows that this organization is labeled as working on orderâ€.

Elnur Aslanov said it is clear whose interests are such maps prepared without correct methodology, without fact-finding mission to the region, without learning of real situation and conducting relative analysis serving during the financial crisis. â€œToday Freedom House serves the interests of those who allocate $8 million in aid to Nagorno Karabakh separatists, those who wishes to see Nagorno Karabakh as a place free for drug trafficking and terrorist camps and laundering of dirty money of Armenian Diaspora and other groupsâ€.