Chirac, during a visit in France of the Azerbaidjan president Ilham Aliev, issued a statement in favor of Peace in the troubled region of Karabakh,where the mostly Armenian population wants to obtain their independance (they declared themselves independent in 1991 when Azerbaidjan itself became independent but apparently that did not work out) , against the will of Aliev's government.
Chirac once again proves us that whatever his value or lack of value as to domestic affairs is, he is GOOD at international relations, he is a great diplomat and gives a crap about things happening in the world. Seriously, nobody talks or knows about Azerbaidjan, in the US tv show 1 v 100 , the name of the country was even one of the possible answers to a multiple choice question being what in the name of the Iranian President. Honestly, the most detailed knowledge I have about Azerbaidjan is a souvenir from my crazy History teacher in High School who repeated all the time, "A Bakou y a bakou bakou de petrole"
The country has never been really exposed to the media, although in almost 20 years of conflict about 35,000 people died, not mentioning the hundreds of thousand of refugees.
So, even if the attempt will most likely be vain (I m not positive as to the international community and its evolution) , thanks mr Chirac for alerting us!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaidjan
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