Today.Az » Politics » Hafiz Pashayev: "Pro-Armenian promises of the candidates for US President should not be taken too seriously"
12 June 2008 [12:39] - Today.Az
Day.Az blitz-interview with Hafiz Pashayev, deputy foreign minister of Azerbaijan, rector of diplomatic academy, first ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to the United States (1993-2006).
- Armenian national committee of the United States has declared that candidate for the US president from democrats Barak Obama will promote improvement of US policy towards Armenian issues. In turn, the activist of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the United States announced that Obama, "finished" by Armenians is the least preferable candidate for the US President in Azerbaijan. Do you share this opinion?
- Certainly, not. The promises of the candidates for president during the election campaign indeed can be considered in the sense of Armenians' influence on them, but I think it wrong to make such conclusions, you have mentioned. I think this approach is naive, considering the past experience of election campaigns in America.
I consider that the fundamental reality is that any US President will be loyal to the interests of the United States, therefore, the promises of the candidates during the election campaign should not be taken too seriously.
- Thus, we can be confident that this time the pro-Armenian announcements of one of the participants of the pre-election racing in the United States, in particular, regarding the need to recognize the so-called "Armenian genocide" by Washington are a PR campaign.
- Yes, Armenians will be active, discuss these issues, impose pressure on official Washington, but as I have already noted that the main issue is the interests of the United States and they are mainly connected with strong ally relations with Turkey.
- And with Azerbaijan in this sense?
- Yes, and with us too.
- Thus, it is not important for us who wins the presidential elections: either Republican McCain or democrat Obama?
- No, I think the victory of democrats of republicans is an internal affair of the United States. For us the most important of the US external policy. Any president, either republican or democrat, will be loyal to the interests of the United States.
- Can Azerbaijan count on preservation of succession of the US policy towards our country regarding of the results of elections?
- Sure, it can.
/Day.Az/
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