Meeting with Ethan Goldrich was not confidential: Azerbaijan's parliamentary official

Chairman of Azerbaijani parliament’s committee for legal policy and statehood Ali Huseynov says parliamentarians’ meeting with Ethan Goldrich, Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts of the U.S. Department of State was not confidential.

Huseynov said chairman of the parliament’s committee Samad Seyidov, chairman of Umid Party Igbal Agazade, chairman of the Democratic Reforms Party Asim Mollazade and MP from Musavat Nasib Nasibli also attended the meeting.

“Nasib Nasibli gave common information about the meeting to media and noted that the meeting was more confidential. But the meeting did not take place in this format. It was a meeting of familiarization during a dinner,” he said.

Huseynov noted that they exchanged opinion with the American official over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“But at the same time, opposition parliamentarians criticized the situation of human rights and democracy in Azerbaijan. Seyidov and I gave objective information to the US official about this issue. We informed that there is sustainable development in the field of human rights and democracy in Azerbaijan and political reforms are carried out successively”.

He said the U.S. official didn’t make detailed comment on the issues.

“It is strange that Nasib Nasibli reportedly had confidential talks with the American guest about the democracy and human rights. After the meeting Nasib Nasibli had tete-a-tete meeting with the guest and may be they had confidential conversation during this meeting. This is specific feature of Azerbaijani opposition. I say once again that we discussed common issues at the meeting."

/APA/