Isn’t Baku Joseph supposed to be a European liberal?
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December 17, 2014 at 9:30am
Instead of looking at carpets and admiring films showing dictator Heydar Aliyev in his youth, or laying flowers on the dictator’s mother’s tomb, Baku Joseph should have insisted on making a statement by visiting this man in prison.
But that would have put a big hole in his begging-bowl, wouldn’t it.
Looks like he’s a progressive European liberal only when he’s sucking up to gay men in Malta for their vote, and to ‘Sliema’ switchers with their usual interminable midlife crisis and existential misery.
In real life, he’s a dictators’ carpetbagger.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/vaclav-havel-human-rights-azerbaijan-anar-mammadli
Unfortunately there are too many Labour supporters who would gladly see Muscat become the Aliyev of Malta.
Here’s who Baku Joseph is getting cosy with:
http://azerireport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4338&Itemid=42
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2014/12/12/le-point/
There is a standing agreement within the EU that human rights issues should be raised by individual governments on behalf of the whole EU during meetings of this nature.
I would be grateful if a member of the press were to ask the Prime Minister (on his return, of course, because it seems that no Maltese journalists were invited this time around) whether he raised human rights issues while in Baku, as he is obliged to do as the leader of an EU member state.
Another thing: were costs for the visit borne by the Azeri government?
Birds of a feather.
http://en.rsf.org/azerbaijan-ilham-aliyev-in-paris-open-letter-27-10-2014,47166.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/22/france-press-rights-visiting-azerbaijani-president
A true liberal would not have considered, let alone approved of, bestowing a national honour on a senior member of the Saudi dynasty or conniving with this Baku dictator.