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Azerbaijani authorities carry out hostile anti-Western propaganda inside the country and at the same time officially speak of Friendly Relations, says "Azadlig" and notes that four members of the Azerbaijani Parliament made a speech at the Washington Institute after Johns Hopkins recently for the lobbyists and experts, asking for U.S. assistance.

MP Samed Seyidov stated that "Azerbaijan may be endangered from the North and the South" and that Baku is pressed "like a sandwich" because of its pro-American disposition. In turn, MP Asim Mollazade stated that the issue of human rights is used as "a lever of pressure" over Azerbaijan and the President "Ilham Aliyev is under pressure."

The newspaper notes that in Washington at the time when the Azerbaijani delegation is talking about friendship, danger for Azerbaijan which was coming from Russia and Iran, and was asking for a help from the U.S., the official propaganda of Azerbaijan is engaged in discrediting the U.S. and its democratic institutions, and the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev threatens the NGOs and diplomatic representative offices in Western countries. In the case of the American organization NDI Azerbaijani authorities do not hesitate to threaten them with expulsion from the country.

In an interview with the newspaper the deputy head of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan Fuad Gahramanli explained the two-faced policy led by the Azerbaijani authorities towards the West, the and the United States particularly: "On the one hand the authorities blackmail the West and the U.S., hinting at a possible threat from Russia. On the other hand they want to show that in the case of pressure increase which can occur due to the democratic challenges, Azerbaijan will respond respectively. Attacks on the NDI can be regarded in this context. A ask the West for help to show that in the pre-election period Azerbaijan is under the pressure of geopolitical factor. It was first announced by the mouth of Saakashvili," said Gahramanli and noted that all of these actions are designed for pre-election period.