“Azerbaijan again made the mistake that Iraq, Egypt, and Libya made. The international community always uses the issue of “lifelong president”, and takes an opportune moment to strike,” said the human rights defender Arbak Khachatryan in the interview with “Aravot”, speaking about the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, as a result of Ilham Aliyev’s re-elected to a third term and by the votes of 85 percent. Our interlocutor, however, believes that it might be a good playing card in the hands of Armenia to come out of current economic and political severe situation. “Armenia has a trump card in its hand, and it is necessary to work in that different with various mechanisms and political instruments to bring the reality of the world that Azerbaijan is guided by one family,” says Arbak Khachatryan, citing Gaddafi who had good relations with Europe, and Mubarak who had pro-American relations, but they did not help them, in any way, to avoid violent death. To recall that the West definitely did not respond to the elections held in Azerbaijan. Rather, it responded quite mutually exclusive. The OSCE and CIS observers are satisfied with the Azerbaijan’s elections, while the OSCE\ODIHR observers expressed exactly the opposite opinion.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
