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Don't confuse the world community
A statement carried by the  September issue of the Azerbaijan magazine published in Sweden triggered in me an impression that the author was Armenian or someone who considered Azerbaijan an enemy. Unfortunately, my presumption was not justified. The statement was signed by Malik Malikmahmud oglu Isayev. According to his introduction, he is the press secretary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Nizami district branch, head of party point #2. In the statement, he claims that Azerbaijan is an anti-democratic state  governed by military-police regime, his fellow party members emigrated from Azerbaijan having been persecuted by the government, etc..
The first point is that a political party has one press secretary and this position is not instituted in district offices in general. Furthermore, party points are established and entitled in accordance with specific territorial-administrative units, not by numbers. Publishers of the magazine are clearly unaware of processes in Azerbaijan at all.
It would have been right if Malik Isayev (if he really exists) had spoken about the Azerbaijan Democratic Party and its chairman Rasul Quluyev, who keeps millions of dollars in foreign banks and has been financing widespread actions and rallies in Azerbaijan since 1996. People like Malik Isayev have no reputation or respect in Azerbaijan. They are well-aware that democratic processes in Azerbaijan develop speedier than most other former Soviet Union republics. Now Ilham Aliyev, head of the Azerbaijani mission to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Europe (PACE), has been elected as a PACE vice-president, while another mission member Naira Saxtaxtinskaya has been appointed PACE Monitoring Committee rapporteur on Bosnia Herzegovina. All this is tantamount to recognizing  Azerbaijan as a democratic nation in Europe.
I would advise the author of the statement to write the reality, not to order, and not to mislead the world community.