After a paid trip to Azerbaijan several EU parliamentarians stopped criticizing the regime

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  1. >After almost 30 years, Azerbaijan abandoned the UN-mandated OSCE-driven peace talks. Instead, they invaded Nagorno-Karabakh. [Freedom House](https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/2022/from-democratic-decline-to-authoritarian-aggression) has called the invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh ”an inspiration for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”.

    >The co-chairs of the OSCE group are France, Russia and the United States. The French and the US ambassadors to Azerbaijan have yet to make any trips to these areas, despite repeated invitations from the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry.

    >It is considered too controversial to visit this area since such a visit can indirectly lend legitimacy to the Azerbaijani actions. Azerbaijan openly criticised the ambassadors of co-chairs of the OSCE group for not visiting the region. Several Azerbaijani politicians went out in the open to have France and the US diplomats be boycotted from the diplomatic community in Azerbaijan.

    >It showed that lands around [Zangilan has in principle been exclusively](https://eurasianet.org/farmland-in-karabakh-being-given-to-powerful-azerbaijanis-report) given to people with close relations to friends of the presidential family, Ilham Aliyev. This includes wealthy businessmen and people connected to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    The author – Swedish investigative journalist Rasmus Canbäck has been (and continues) to be harassed and targeted by Azerbaijan’s government and its lackeys https://rsf.org/en/rsf-calls-azerbaijan-end-online-harassment-swedish-journalist

  2. Ahh the classic, from one fucked country’s goverment to another.
    But hey at least they just attack and kill their neighbor that isn’t in Europe right? /s

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