President Coleiro Preca: Malta to use EU presidency to Azerbaijan’s advantage

Published: October 25, 2016 at 1:02am

Malta’s head of state received Azerbaijan’s new ambassador, Mammad Ahmadzadeh, yesterday, and the press in that country has reported on President Coleiro Preca’s offer that Malta be useful to Azerbaijan in this context. In other words, we’re holding the EU presidency for six months, so hey, let’s be useful to Dictator Aliyev.

You’ll find more reported here. And this particular story carries the fascinating nugget of information that Malta bought $142 million worth of products (that would be fuel) last year. Imagine the commission on that, and the companies it populated in Panama and the British Virgin Islands.

But I don’t think we’ll be having an Oil Scandal Scoop any time soon.

Malta's head of state receives Azerbaijan's new ambassador, who is resident in Rome.

Malta’s head of state receives Azerbaijan’s new ambassador, who is resident in Rome.