Senator Charles Heigle: “It will cause serious anxiety if military supplies of Russia are placed in Armenia”

C.Heigle was introduced to the journalists before the press conference started. He was reported to have been serving in the Senate for a long time, participated in the Vietnam War, founded mobile phone company, headed investment company and he took his first independent steps in the radio as broadcaster of talk-show.

Then the Senator addressed the conference. C.Heigle stated that, that is his 9th visit to the region and 3rd visit to Azerbaijan. Stating that, he started his journey from Turkey this time, the Senator underlined that he will visit Georgia, and Armenia and Ukraine then. He stated he conducted several meetings in Baku as well as conducted talks with President Ilham Aliyev: “The goal of my visit is to display devotedness in continuing the relations in the cooperation in the sphere of democracy, security, economic development and energy between the USA and Azerbaijan”.

Responding to the questions, the Senator expressed his hope that free, transparent, democratic elections will be held in Azerbaijan. He underlined that, the USA always assists Azerbaijan in holding democratic election. Stating that Republicans and Democracy institutions of his country are functioning in Azerbaijan, the Senator announced that the election depends on the will of government of Azerbaijan and the voters at the result.

The senator expressing his relation to not allowing holding political actions in Azerbaijan informed that it was not an estimable case. He said that he hoped the Azerbaijani government would not impede the opposition’s holding the action on June 4. Charles Heigle answering the question about establishing the Russian military bases withdrawn from Georgia in Armenia informed that withdrawing the military equipment from Georgia was good news: “However, if the military supplies of Russia are brought to Armenia, this would give much trouble”. The senator considers that the military bases of the foreign country should not be established in the territory of the independent country in case it causes danger for the region.

/APA/