Turkish and Azeri circles were displeased with my latest column where I had analyzed Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s phone call to Armenia’s President Serge Sarkisian. ‘In view of such persistent attacks,Armenian-American political organizations should forcefully counter all deceitful and defamatory articles written by the likes of Elmira Tariverdiyeva and Alexander Murinson.’ (Photo: RFE/RL) Azerbaijan’s Trend news agency published a ridiculous article by Elmira Tariverdiyeva, titled: “Yerevan’s failed phone call or why Trump did not respond.” She is the head of Trend’s Russian-language news service. The Azeri article is replete with nonsensical and groundless assertions. The author, or who has a limited knowledge of American politics,calls the Pence-Sarkisian phone calls a “disaster.” She wrongly claims that Pence simply returned Sargsyan’s phone call. In fact, it was Vice President-elect Pence who made the call to Sarkisian. The real disaster is that the President of filthy rich Azerbaijan, or Aliyev,would believe been unable to talk to President-elect Trump or Vice President-elect Pence without the assistance of highly-paid lobbyists in Washington. The Azeri journalist goes on to create bigger gaffes by claiming that Hillary Clinton’s defeat “was a astronomical disappointment for Yerevan. It is known that Clinton maintained fairly close relationships with [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com