Baku. The U.S. Embassy flatly denied allegations of CIA
recruiting workers from youth activists in Azerbaijan to implement a type of
color revolution of the Arab Spring.
Such
statements were made by the Azerbaijan General Prosecutor's Office
investigators interrogating the arrested youth activists of NIDA. One of the defendants in this case, Ilkin
Rustamzade, at the court hearing on Tuesday showed that the investigator
claimed that another defendant, Rashad Hasanov, met two colonels of the CIA,
who instructed him. The investigator said Rashad is a traitor and he should be
exposed, Rustamzade showed.
The defendants categorically denied any
connection with U.S. authorities and training color revolution.
At the request of Turan, the press service
of the U.S. embassy commented on the accusations this way: "Any
allegations that US government representatives are trying to foment a
revolution in Azerbaijan are absolutely absurd. Those who propagate such
accusations are simply trying to undermine Azerbaijan's relationship with one
of its strategic partners."