Muscat – front row with dictator in Baku

This is a picture of Joseph Muscat at the opening ceremony of the ‘3rd Global Baku Forum’. He is seated in the front row, near the Baku dictator, Ilham Aliyev.

Is this a sign that Malta is now Extremely Important? No, it is a sign that Malta now has vassal status to Azerbaijan, in the way that it had vassal status to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya in the 1970s and early 1980s.