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Mexico City Panel Recommends Aliyev Statue Removal

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November 26, 2012
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The statue of Heydar Aliyev in Mexico City

Azeri Ambassador threatens Mexico City government

MEXICO CITY—A three-person panel appointed to investigate the erection of a statue of the late Azeri President Haydar Aliyev in the city’s Reforma Boulevard on Friday announced its recommendation that the statue be removed, reported the Los Angeles Times.

The city government’s decision to allow Azerbaijan to erect a monument memorializing Aliyev had raised controversy in Mexico, with Mexicans complaining that the elder Aliyev’s tarnished record on human rights violations should not be awarded by displaying his image.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Azerbaijan paid as much as $10 million to erect the statue, clean up the section of the park where it sits and make similar repairs at a second site downtown.

Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Mexico, Ilgar Mukhtarov, was quoted in a Mexico City newspaper, La Razon, threatening to break diplomatic relations with Mexico if the statue is removed. Muktarov also said Azerbaijan would cancel $4 billion in investment projects for Mexico.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, for whom the entire episode has been a major embarrassment, said he would study the recommendations, according to Los Angeles Times.

“If Ebrard decides to remove the monument, we will cancel the projects, close the embassy, it would hurt the relationship between the two countries, and it would not be good for his image to be the person who prevented a $4-billion investment,” the ambassador was quoted as saying.

“However, he later sounded a much more conciliatory note. Meeting with reporters at the Azerbaijan Embassy, Mukhtarov said his government was prepared to negotiate with the city and find a “friendly” solution to the dispute,” reported the Los Angeles Times.

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  1. basil says:
    10 years ago

    Oh well, I guess this is due to the fact that backward people need a FUEHRER and an artificial people with no history need recognition. So it all comes together with the North Iranian province known today as the Sheikhdom of Azerbaijan (run by Alievs for 40 or so years with only minor interruptions).

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  2. SUSIE says:
    10 years ago

    If I paid the City of Tel Aviv $10 Billion every year will they allow me to built a monument of Hitler?

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  3. George says:
    10 years ago

    Azerbaijan with it’s OIL and $$$$$ is humiliating Mexico, is there an end at sight, how long this will last, Azerbaijan keepps threatening country after country, again and again, while the Int’l community sits put. What a shame.

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  4. Sevag says:
    10 years ago

    “Friendly” solutions seem to be the key word for jibbirish in Azerbaijan these days….false promises

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  5. Satenik says:
    10 years ago

    It shouldn’t have been there in the first place!

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