Azerbaijan strongly condemns Blinken's biased statement

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned and rejected the biased statement of December 11 by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, which distorts the current situation regarding the protection of human rights and freedoms in Azerbaijan.

In a statement , the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aykhan Hajizada, noted that Blinken’s statement aims to interfere in the legal proceedings in Azerbaijan, News.Az reports.

"Unfortunately, due to the intervention of the U.S. State Department led by Secretary of State Blinken in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan during the last 4 years, the period in question is considered lost years for Azerbaijan-US relations, which were remembered for friendship and cooperation within many periods," Hajizada stated.

"It is well known that Antony Blinken's double standards in relation to the current situation of human rights in our country has paralyzed the South Caucasus policy of the United States as a whole," he added.

The spokesman said Baku hopes that mutual friendship and partnership relations between Azerbaijan and the United States will be restored during the new U.S. administration.

News.Az