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Turkey, Azerbaijan Shunned, Armenia Invited to Biden’s Democracy Summit

Asbarez Staff by Asbarez Staff
November 5, 2021
in Armenia, Artsakh, Featured Story, Latest, News, Top Stories
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President Biden has not invited Turkey and Azerbaijan to a Democracy Summit, but has invited Armenia

President Joe Biden has not invited Turkey and Azerbaijan to his upcoming Summit for Democracy, but has included Armenia on its guest list, according to a document obtained by Politico.

In its reporting Politico said some countries, such as Turkey and Hungary, have not been invited surmising that a lack of an invitation was because their leaders have been undermining their democratic systems for years.

The Armenian National Committee of America called Biden’s decision not to invite Turkey and Azerbaijan“a sharp but unsurprising rebuke to Azerbaijan’s petro-monarchy and Turkey’s neo-Ottoman dictatorship.”

On December 9-10, 2021, Biden will host the first of two Summits for Democracy, which will bring together leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector to set forth an affirmative agenda for democratic renewal and to tackle the greatest threats faced by democracies today through collective action.

For the United States, the summit will offer an opportunity to listen, learn, and engage with a diverse range of actors whose support and commitment is critical for global democratic renewal. It will also showcase one of democracy’s unique strengths: the ability to acknowledge its weaknesses and imperfections and confront them openly and transparently, so that we may, as the United States Constitution puts it, “form a more perfect union.”

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  1. Tara Lovitt says:
    8 months ago

    On the other hand US has given Azerbaijan more Financial and military aid than to Armenia. This invitation is an empty gesture.

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    • Ararat says:
      8 months ago

      I think the real question here should be why is the United States giving financial and military aid to terrorist artificial Azerbaijan with massive oil revenues in the first place when the illegitimate Azerbaijani SOB leader Ilham Aliyev, the son of a former commie KGB agent, never missed an opportunity to boast and publically state about spending more petrodollars on weapons purchases than the entire Armenia’s annual state budget? The answer is quite obvious to me and I think there are several reasons for this. One, because both American and European giant energy companies are heavily invested in the Caspian oil & gas exploration and industry. Two, because the West is actively trying to distance artificial Azerbaijan, a gas station disguised as a country, from the Russian sphere of influence through NATO member genocidal terrorist Turkey. Three, American foreign policy in that part of the world, in the Middle East in particular, has long been hijacked by Israeli Zionist agents who are planning to use the artificial Azerbaijani soil, occupied ancient Armenian territories bordering Iran to be exact, as a base to launch attacks on Iran’s nuclear power plants like they did on Iraq back in the early 1980s. They have already demonstrated their presence there when in the recent past they initiated planned attacks from the artificial Azerbaijan surgically removing a couple of Iranian nuclear scientists by assassinating them using new and advanced remote technology. In reality, I strongly believe artificial Azerbaijan is a state within a state. The loud-mouth chicken-hawk Aliyev is the face of this artificial state but those financing, planning their foreign policies and running this terrorist cesspool are hidden behind this fake despotic leader and they are the ones calling the shots from behind the scenes. The racist anti-Armenian terrorist Aliyev is just a tool being used by these secret agents as means to their preplanned end!

      The United States has never had any interest in landlocked Armenia which due to necessity, in terms of security primarily, is and has always been tightly tied to Russia. In turn, the Russian leadership knowing this fact real well exercise full control over Armenia and dictate Armenia’s foreign policy. The only times the US has shown or shows any interest towards Armenia is when the opportunity presents itself to use Armenia and the Armenians against their Russian adversary. Armenia is nothing more than a pawn in the hands of these superpowers, used and abused, whenever it suits their own national interests. Two years after the war in 1920 when the Turks were defeated at the end of WWI in 1918 and were at the mercy of the Allied Powers, the United States had the opportunity to free and liberate Armenia from its Turkish and Soviet enemies but failed to do so.

      The US president Woodrow Wilson asked the United States Congress for the authority to establish a mandate for Armenia in 1920 which would have required the deployment of US troops to protect and secure the newly-drawn borders of Armenia. Most of the Armenian territories today under Turkish occupation were to be returned to the Armenians. The United States Senate rejected his request the same year. The terrorist Turks under the Young Turks Ottoman leadership having already committed a premeditated and state-sponsored genocide against the indigenous Armenians in 1915 murdering 1.5 million of them and confiscating their ancient homeland as a result, under the new rebel terrorist leadership of pseudo-Turkish Ataturk and by taking advantage of the American indecisiveness and lack of support for the Armenians and with full help, both financial and military, from the criminal Soviets attacked and retook Armenian territories which were to be returned to Armenians as part of the Wilsonian Armenian Mandate. They did not stop there either. They went further until they were stopped by a united Armenian front. What was left of Armenia was absorbed and taken over by the Soviets for the next seven decades from 1921 to 1991 when at that time the Soviet Union came to an end and Armenia declared its independence.

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