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    AMERICAN PROFESSOR THOMAS GOLTZ: "THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON SEEM TO WANT TO STICK THEIR FINGERS IN EVERYTHING, ALWAYS"

    APA
    April 26 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Washington. Isabel Levine - APA. "This is the second time as president
    that Obama has avoided using the word "genocide" in connection
    with the annual Armenian commemoration of April 24, 1915, and he
    is already coming in for criticism by both Armenians and Turks;
    the former because he did not use the word and from the latter for
    referring to April 24 at all.

    This is an annual game and underlines the differences between what
    candidates for the presidency say before and after election", Thomas
    Goltz, American journalist and adjunct professor of Political Science
    at Montana State University told APA's Washington correspondent. "As
    for the impact of this on the so-called reconciliation process between
    Armenia and Turkey is hard to tell, but my sense is what Obama says
    or doesn't say on April 24 is a tiny part of that process at best,
    and even less on the Nagorno-Karabakh process", said Thomas Goltz.

    Regarding the Turkey-Armenia rapprochement supported by US, the Montana
    professor said: "I think on the issue whether the US should stand aside
    and let the Turks and Armenians figure out things between themselves,
    my personal attitude is just that. But I suspect that my opinion on
    that matter is not shared by the people in government in Washington,
    who seem to want to stick their fingers in everything, always".

    Goltz said he was fully aware of the dip in US-Azerbaijani ties. "I
    am worried by the dip in US-Azerbaijani ties that culminated with
    Azerbaijan's public criticism of US policy towards Azerbaijan in
    general and Mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh in particular, which seems
    titled toward coddling the Armenians. My views on that issue are well
    known and usually described as 'pro-Azerbaijan.' Sadly, I am not a
    policy-maker in Washington DC but a mere adjunct professor in the
    mountains of Montana", he said.
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