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As the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan" reports, the statement of Elmar Mammadyarov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, on the inadmissibility of blackmailing the Azerbaijani government by a number of OSCE member countries, was like a voice crying in the wilderness.

The agency notes that by saying blackmailing, Mammadyarov meant the willingness of “a number of countries” to veto the plans of Baku in reducing the status of the OSCE office in Azerbaijan. It also says that when Mammadyarov speaks of "a number of members №, then behind this vague index names of at least 27 countries of the European Union are concealed.

According to "Turan", there are two versions of such an open lose-lose confrontation of Aliyev's administration with the Western community: First, the Government of Azerbaijan wants to build and use military potential against Armenia, and that’s why wishes to get out of custody of the OSCE commitments. Second, the government of Azerbaijan plans to fabricate the presidential elections again and therefore seeks to weaken the control of the OSCE over the electoral process, the agency notes.

"The recent critical statements of Mubariz Gurbanli and Aydin Mirzazade, MPs from the ruling party "Yeni Azerbaijan", were addressed to the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process. These statements are in favor of the first version. But they sound much weaker than the blackmail addressed to the OSCE, NDI and the other Western structures at the president’s level, the head of his administration, and other officials, for non-interference in the internal affairs of the country in response to the notes about violations of international human rights and freedoms," Turan reports.

The authors note that in past years the Azerbaijani regime rushed into the arms of Russia at the slightest overpressure, but today these arms are closed for the Azerbaijani officials who "armed with cash bags, unsuccessfully try to establish the interrupted dialogue."

"Staff of the guests of the International Economic Forum in Baku, where there were no officials from Brussels and Moscow, showed that the regime is increasingly pressed in the arms of isolation, which today is formed by the European-Russian arc," Turan writes.
On March 14 the U.S. permanent representative to the OSCE Gary Robbins told the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna about the plans of the official Baku to limit the authorities and missions of the Organization in Baku.