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    Azad Azarbaycan TV
    Dec 16 2009

    Azerbaijan unhappy with US aid to breakaway Karabakh


    [Presenter] Baku is concerned about the traditional assistance
    provided by the United States to the separatist Nagornyy Karabakh
    regime. However, this concern cannot be described as anti-US
    propaganda inside the country, a department head at the Presidential
    Administration, Ali Hasanov, has said.

    [Hasanov, speaking to reporters] We are not against assistance to
    people suffering in Nagornyy Karabakh who need help. But if there are
    people who need this assistance in Nagornyy Karabakh, it is members of
    the Azerbaijani community who have been displaced from Nagornyy
    Karabakh and who have been forced to live in inhumane conditions in
    tent camps for years. All our demands and appeals are that the same US
    Congress, the same congressmen who raised this issue at the Congress,
    and the American public who supported it should take account of these
    circumstances. No matter who receives this assistance, it helps
    strengthen the ethnic separatist regime in Nagornyy Karabakh. In any
    case, it helps strengthen the uncontrolled military entity in Nagornyy
    Karabakh and therefore - [clip cut mid-sentence]

    [Presenter] As is known, an appeal was made yesterday to the US
    president and Congress on behalf of Azerbaijani parliament over the
    issue. The deputy speaker of the Milli Maclis [Azerbaijani
    parliament], Bahar Muradova, believes that the MPs tried to make it
    clear to Washington that it did not take a fair position in the first
    place.

    [Muradova, speaking to a reporter in her office] These are statements
    we have always been hearing from the USA and US officials concerning
    world policies - bringing peace, stability, exporting democracy to
    different parts of the world - these are America's priorities, its
    objectives. But if we look at the decision from any of these angles,
    it is absolutely not fair. From this standpoint in the first place,
    there is disbalance and discrepancy between what the USA declares and
    its actions and decisions. In view of this, I believe that when
    adopting this decision, the US Congress failed to act in accordance
    with the principle of justice, the principle of territorial integrity,
    independence, strategic partnership, cooperation, or signed
    agreements.

    [translated from Azeri]
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