The Russia 1 TV channel showed the reportage about the biased attitude of the European parliament to Azerbaijan in its `Vesti nedeli` weekly program.

The reportage says:

`The supreme lawmaking body of Azerbaijan Milli Majlis has passed a resolution cutting ties with the European Parliament. It came after the European parliament adopted a resolution accusing Azerbaijan about the allegedly ‘constant violation of human rights in the country’ and, as it goes, ‘unprecedented repressions about civil society.’

Commenting on the resolution, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev supported his parliamentarians and called the European resolution ‘an absolutely unfounded political provocation built on a lie, libel and biased attitude’.

“First of all, before accusing someone else, look at yourself. The destiny of refugees who are heading to Europe from Middle East is obvious today. These people are victims of the external interference, while their countries are ruined.

Who did this? The external forces destroyed these countries, violated territorial integrity, killed hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people lost their relatives. And see what awaits them in Europe? Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia. Are these the European values? The European Parliament should better deal with these issues”, Aliyev said.

If we look at it from the side, it is quite clear that among the Muslim countries Azerbaijan is the most secular. And such a radical tone of the European parliament in relation to Baku is hardly justified and mostly unexpected. The West usually uses this intonation in relation to the countries whose independent course hampers Americans’ actions. Therefore, they let the Eurocrats take steps before them.

The news about possible sanctions against Azerbaijan for ‘unprecedented repressions’ caught European tourists as they were dancing by Azerbaijani folklore songs.

“People here are incredibly friendly. But in Europe they say that this is a very terrible place. They simply know very little about Azerbaijan,” foreign tourists say.

Judging by the hastiness in adopting the resolution, European parliamentarians clearly had different thoughts. They invented 24 paragraphs about the alleged violation of human rights in Azerbaijan without leaving their offices. President of the country Ilham Aliyev personally responded to the threat of the European Parliament about target sanctions and suspension of visa issuance to Azerbaijani officials and even judges.

“For me, as a President, the resolution adopted by the European Parliament, is no more than a piece of paper. I do not attach any significance to this and, certainly, I condemn it. I want to tell the external forces, wishing to subdue Azerbaijan: all your efforts are in vain. No external force can exert pressure on independent policy of Azerbaijan, based on national interests, by way of blackmail and libel,” Aliyev said.

In compiling the paper, the European parliament used the empty accusations and false allegations. They accused Azerbaijan of murdering journalist Rasim Aliyev, who allegedly criticized the working authorities. But this is an open lie.

When during the football match between the teams of Azerbaijan and Cyprus one of the footballers scored a goal and showed an indecent gesture to fans, Rasim wrote on his Internet page that such an athlete cannot play for the country.

“He was beaten for his words on his page. Rasim was not in politics”, Rasim’s mother Teyfura Aliyeva said.

“The resolution artificially politicized a domestic crime. This method has already been tested. This is a method of creating a negative image and exerting pressure on a country. They try to show who wears the pants,” said Samad Seyidov, chairman of the Milli Majlis committee for international relations and interparliamentary ties, head of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE.

Another demand of the European parliament is the immediate restoration of the nongovernmental organizations in Azerbaijan. What NGOs are needed for and what happens when foreign agents interfere with the domestic policy was clearly seen in Azerbaijan before the presidential elections of 2013. They regularly arranged mass riots for western money.

“Today Azerbaijan is the only Muslim country which preserves stability. The growing trade with Russia cannot but cause outrage in the West, which introduces anti-Russian sanctions,” said Elmira Tariverdiyeva, the head of the Russian service of Trend News.

“Someone is clearly annoyed with our relations with Russia. Our positions are practically similar on Syrian migrants. The West ruined the Middle East as an ant hill. They started with Tunisia, and passed to Libya and Iraq,” said Fikrat Sadigov, the political scientist, professor of the Western University, expert in international relations.

Experts continue that the European Parliament resolution is nothing but a reaction to Azerbaijan’s rejection to join NATO for already a few years. They regularly make proposals in this regard. Maximum what they achieved is that Baku allowed the North Atlantic Alliance to land their transportation airplanes on their bases.

NATO is clearly not satisfied with the provision to carry only ‘nonlethal cargo’, that is everything except for armament.

NATO aircraft regularly land on a military aerodrome in one of the settlements in Azerbaijan’s east. Cargoes are further carried to Afghanistan via the Caspian Sea. For the purpose of increasing the number of its hardware in the territory of Azerbaijan the NATO leadership signed a secret document amid the war in Ukraine. The main idea is the immediate expansion of cooperation with Azerbaijan. The main goal is to give a clear signal to Russia.

In response, Baku established its own production of sniper rifles and did not even raise the issue of NATO accession, while strengthening ties with Russia on an annual basis. Since the beginning of 2015 the trade between the countries has risen by 6%, which is not a limit, experts say.

The volume of Azerbaijani vegetables and fruits on the Russian market is growing every day - they are already transported by a simplified scheme-via ‘the green corridor’ at the customs point. Meanwhile, billions of cubic meters of gas may be sent to Azerbaijan from Russia by the end of this year as Gazprom is negotiating with the oil company of Baku.

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