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After Panorama.am published an article citing Azerbaijani media saying that political analyst of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre Amanda Paul, who is very popular in Turkey and Azerbaijan, made a scandalous statement:

“Azerbaijan has an absolute right to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through military means because the negotiation process supported by the OSCE Minsk Group has yielded no result for around two years, with the international community exerting no pressure on Armenia,” Amanda Paul denied her own words.

Moreover, Andrew Williams, Communication Manager at the European Policy Centre, phoned Panorama.am to assure the editorial staff that Amanda Paul had never made any statement on Nagorno-Karabakh.

However, there is a noteworthy circumstance: whereas Azerbaijani sources reprinted the quotation by Amanda Paul, they are in no hurry to publish a refutation, though two days have passed. We will remind that this statement, which they ascribe to Amanda Paul, who positions herself as a European expert, is an obvious war propaganda and incitement to hostility and violence. This is a direct violation of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Andrew Williams either did not manage to reach on the phone the Azerbaijani sources, which, unlike the Armenian news agencies, reprinted this article, or his call was unanimously ignored in Azerbaijan, which is an eloquent evidence of the working methods of Azerbaijani journalists.