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Monday, April 2, 2012

''Azerbaijan is not Israel's "secret staging ground", embassy says''

From Trend


"Azerbaijani embassy in Washington has strongly denied the report by Foreign Policy magazine that Azerbaijan had allegedly provided Israel with its airfields near the border with Iran.

"I was most surprised to read a very provocative and unsubstantiated article by Mark Perry in your publication ("Israel's Secret Staging Ground"). The author arrives at wide ranging allegations based on unnamed sources and rather convoluted commentary. Clearly upset about Azerbaijan's friendly relations with Israel, Perry, for some reason, equates a historic friendship between the Azerbaijani and Jewish people into preparing for a war against Iran", Nargiz Gurbanova, a counselor at Azerbaijan's embassy in Washington, said Monday in an article in the Foreign Policy."


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