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For years Azerbaijani authorities spend millions on normalizing relations with Washington; yet they don’t get any positive statement from the “cradle of democracy” in response, Azerbaijani information portal "Minval.az” reads.

The article points out that the tension between the Azerbaijani authorities and the USA isn’t confined with the problems between the countries, but also comprises the authority itself. According to the information provided by the newspaper “Yeni Musavat,” the large number of tough statements made recently by the US, including the extreme toughness of the annual report of the US Department of State, has greatly enraged the Azerbaijani authorities.

For many years the authorities spend millions of dollars with the help of several individuals to maintain informal relations with the USA. All these means are spent under the guise of cooperation with the senators, congressmen and high officials from various US government institutions for the sake of supporting the authorities in Azerbaijan. “Huge sums of money have been spent on this. There is not a single text supporting the authorities by the US. Instead of that there are tough statements, protests and claims, and this comes despite the fact that Minister Ziya Mammadov’s clan, which is responsible for the lobbying activities in the US, is urgently demanding a statement of support,” “Minval.az” notes.

As the article has it, the embassy of Azerbaijan to the USA, the leader of the Azerbaijan-America Alliance Anar Mammadov, leading figures in the field of foreign policy, MPs Samed Seidov, Elkhan Suleimanov and the chairman of one of the oppositionary political parties in the Parliament were toughly condemned. The reason is that chiefly these very people were assuring in their reports that all the nesessary work regarding the US was being carried out and the corrsponding circles were neutralised, with all the American protests being supposed to be countered from America itself.

“For many years it was preferred to regulate those relations on an informal level. Yet it’s clear today that the authorities don’t get a real support from the US even in the informal relations. Even the circles presented to the authorities as their supporters, turned their face from them without any real backing,” the article states, adding that after a serious discussion of the matter it was decided to punish those lying to the authorities about the support from the US.

According to the information “Minval.az” got from the governmental sources, those responsible for the current situation will be seriously punished. They will not only be removed from carrying out that work in the future, but also deprived of the internal levers of influence. “To put it figuratively, an American wind is currently blowing inside the authorities and it will carry away some prominent people,” the author concludes.

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