Off to the Azerbaijan news sites for news about our prime minister’s visit there
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December 15, 2014 at 11:16am
Apparently, he was met off the plane by assorted dictatorship cheeses, and then inspected in the troops in darkness, a mission for which Mallia would have gladly given up a boxer or two.
I trust Muscat realises he’s being treated like a tool – hence what his wife describes as all this “treatment”.
But no, he probably doesn’t. You can the man out of the sticks but you can’t take the sticks out of the man.
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http://www.news.az/articles/politics/94308
He might be inspired to call Malta International Airport Ajruport Joseph Muscat, the way things are going.
Once he’s there, I suggest he invests in some real estate, for political refuge after his whole scam turns against him.
Xi haga ghandhom dan-nies tigbihom lejn id-dittatorjat.
They’ve rolled out the red carpet and organised an armed guard of honour in the middle of the cold Azeri night.
Looks like it’s a very formal and official visit, and yet, the Maltese government has kept it highly secretive.
1980s and North Korea come to mind.
So let’s hope that if he doesn’t manage to sign a deal for LNG gas, they give him some artificial manure and some weapons as a consolation prize.
One detail to be highlighted. The highly secretive Azeri state thought it appropriate to send a photographer for the occasion. Joseph Muscat did not.
What is the reason for this obsession with such a corrupt state? Is the corruption the attraction?
In 2012 the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) named Ilham Aliyev Person of the Year (a title bestowed for figuring prominently in 2012 on stories on crime and corruption) after “well-documented evidence” revealed that “his family has secret ownership stakes in the country’s largest businesses including bank, construction companies, gold mines and phone companies”.
Haqqu medalja.
Birds of a feather
Why is he inspecting the troops? That’s the job of the head of state and this wasn’t a state visit.
Maybe it’s their equivalent of “Polizia di Stato.”
Why not ‘The Peoples’ Republic of Malta’?
Muscat’s sense of values are such that he would admire someone like Aliyev.