On Azerbaijan coverage

The administration of justice plays an important role in any society. Therefore, even if one disagrees with the initial verdict, a case should be allowed to make its way through the judicial system, including appellate courts, a notion certainly familiar to many in the United States. Summarily dismissing the prosecution’s argument solely for ideological reasons is hardly beneficial for civil society development.

As for the people-to-people contacts, it is the Azerbaijani side that insists on meetings between the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh , an area illegally occupied by Armenia. The reasons for Armenia’s rejection of such a dialogue as well as other developments in our strategically important region deserve more complex and multidimensional coverage than what we have seen so far.

Samira Safarova, Washington

The writer is political officer for the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

 

(WP)