{"id":716,"date":"2014-08-24T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=716"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:20:03","slug":"ambassador-ignores-bogus-charges-against-rights-activists-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador ignores bogus charges against rights activists in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RICHARD KAUZLARICH, Falls Church (The writer was ambassador to Azerbaijan from 1994 to 1997)
\nThe Washington Post<\/em>
\nLetters to the Editor<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s Aug. 14 editorial \u201cA poor imitation of Russia<\/a>\u201d was right on, despite Azerbaijani Ambassador Elin Suleymanov\u2019s response [\u201cAzerbaijan\u2019s dissenters<\/a>,\u201d letters, Aug. 18].<\/p>\n

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The ambassador did not address the bogus charges of spying for Armenia made against Leyla and Arif Yunus, the fact that Ms. Yunus is being denied medicines and medical treatment or the fact that there are dozens of other political prisoners being detained or imprisoned in Azerbaijani jails.<\/p>\n

Belittling the important nongovernmental diplomacy that the Yunuses are involved in to help promote peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan because Azerbaijan \u201cis working through the Minsk Group to achieve this\u201d defies understanding. Neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan has demonstrated a commitment to the Minsk Group framework because neither side is prepared to make the compromises necessary to achieve the peaceful resolution of this conflict.<\/p>\n

Nongovernmental diplomacy efforts are an inconvenient reminder for the Azerbaijani regime of its unwillingness to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Better to have those who seek peace between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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