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The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, is in impasse because of the scandal unfolded around the Azerbaijani diplomats who had criticized the corrupt officials. Minval.az writes that the question of FM's dismissal after the European Games is on the agenda, too.

Citing its own sources, Minval.az writes that the authorities are very displeased with the head of the Foreign Office not calling Armenia ''occupant'' during the recent talks on Karabakh issue. ''Certain remarks have been made to the Foreign Minister. Some are sure that Mammadyarov has never been a patriot and as if he did not at all behave like the Foreign Minister of the country he represents,'' the outlet writes.

According to the article, the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev intends to withdraw many Azerbaijani ambassadors from European countries before their terms expire. The reason is that they were not able to meet the expectations. There is an opinion that after the scandal with Arif Mammadov the authorities decided to reconsider the work of the diplomatic corpse and disestablish it. ''The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to EU Fuad Isgandarov, Azerbaijan's representative to NATO Khazar Ibrahim, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to France Elchin Amirbekov, the Azerbaijani representative to Germany Parviz Shahbazov and others are included in the 'black list','' according to Minval.az.

The scandal broke out in the Azerbaijani Foreign Office because on the next day after the fire in the new residential building took the lives of 15 people because of the low-quality siding, a top official from the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, Arif Mammadov, wrote on his Facebook, “This tragedy is every Azerbaijani’s pain and tragedy. No nation will stand this sort of shame and injustice. The officials get millions from the suffering of our people, and if they are not afraid of our people’s anger, let them be afraid of Allah’s anger!” This was what drove him into disgrace. Those who supported the Facebook post also got into “the suspect list.”

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