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  • BAKU: Azeri Envoy Dispels Anxiety Over Failure to Back Turk Cypriots

    AZERI ENVOY DISPELS ANXIETY OVER FAILURE TO BACK TURKISH CYPRIOTS

    ANS TV, Baku
    2 May 04

    (Presenter) The Azerbaijani ambassador to Turkey, Mammad Aliyev, has
    come to a conclusion that Turkey's anxiety about Azerbaijani
    parliamentarians' non-participation in the Cyprus vote has been
    dispelled. Baku's position has been explained to the Turkish media,
    Aliyev said. The Azerbaijani delegation's failure to participate in
    the voting on Cyprus in the Council of Europe was simply the result of
    carelessness.

    (Correspondent) Azerbaijani MPs did not participate in the discussions
    of the draft resolution "On Turkish Cypriot MPs' participation in the
    Council of Europe on behalf of their own state" on 29 April due to
    shortcomings in organization and carelessness. This is the conclusion
    the Turkish media drew following Azerbaijani ambassador Mammad
    Aliyev's explanation.

    (Mammad Aliyev, voice) We explained that deliberate non-participation
    was absolutely out of the question. This was due to shortcomings in
    organization and carelessness.

    (Correspondent) Mammad Aliyev said that one should not allow
    Turkish-Azerbaijani relations to worsen due to this misunderstanding.

    (Aliyev) There are circles serving the Armenian lobby. Regrettably,
    there are circles, particularly in Istanbul, which spend big money to
    worsen relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan. They want to present
    this as a deliberate act, i.e. allegedly the Azerbaijani MPs did not
    participate in the voting deliberately. We have exposed them.

    (Correspondent) Aliyev said that only 70 of the 450 members of the
    PACE joined the voting, adding that the results would not have changed
    if the Azerbaijani parliamentarians had joined the voting. At the same
    time, Azerbaijan has always supported Turkey on the Cyprus issue.

    (Aliyev) I reiterated our president's words that our support for
    Cyprus would continue. If there are favourable international
    conditions to end the isolation and lift the embargo, Azerbaijan would
    be one of the first (countries to recognize independence of the
    Turkish Cypriots), our esteemed president said. I reiterated this in
    my statement.

    (Correspondent) The Azerbaijani delegation's failure to participate in
    the PACE discussions on the aforesaid issue was covered thoroughly by
    the Turkish media. In particular, Hurriyet carried a front page
    article, quoting President Ilham Aliyev "We would have dismissed them
    if they were government officials".
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