{"id":7319,"date":"2015-04-17T00:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:02:52","slug":"ahmad-shahidovs-speech-at-osce-vienna-meeting-angered-us-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"\u2028Ahmad Shahidov\u2019s speech at OSCE Vienna meeting angered US diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/atet3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7600\" src=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/atet3-640x364.jpg\" alt=\"atet3\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe freedoms of association and assembly\u00a0were discussed at the meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OSCE\u2019s next meeting was held in Vienna, Austria on April 16 with a focus on\u00a0the freedoms of association and assembly\u00a0in OSCE participating countries. In his speech B. Baer,\u00a0United States Ambassador\u00a0for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe\u00a0stayed on Azerbaijan and harshly criticised official Baku for restricting freedom of peaceful assembly. He also touched on the arrests of NGO representatives, human rights advocates and journalists in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aftermath,\u00a0Ahmad Shahidov, Head of the Azerbaijani Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (AIDHR)\u00a0\u00a0took the floor and informed participants to the assembly on state of freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan and outcomes of monitoring conducted during the National Council of Azerbaijan\u2019s recent protest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tzKmqXdWXA?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In respond to the US Ambassador\u2019s remarks, Ahmad Shahidov highlighted recent brutality of US policy to the black protestors, shooting them right in the street. He went on criticising Washington policy pursued under the umbrella of democratic values. He underscored that police in Azerbaijan never used rubber bullet during demonstrations, adding that world community turn blind eye to the police brutality, crackdown of protests in the US and European countries which means double standard.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, B. Baer,\u00a0United States Ambassador\u00a0for the OSCE left the assembly without making any comments on Mr. Shahidov\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7326\" src=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"osce\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce-292x195.jpg 292w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7327\" src=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce1-650x434.jpg\" alt=\"osce1\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce1-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce1-292x195.jpg 292w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7320\" src=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-1-650x357.jpg\" alt=\"osce_16.04.2015-1\" width=\"650\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-1-650x357.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-1-292x160.jpg 292w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-1.jpg 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7321\" src=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-650x358.jpg\" alt=\"osce_16.04.2015\" width=\"650\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-650x358.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015-292x161.jpg 292w, https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/osce_16.04.2015.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freedoms of association and assembly\u00a0were discussed at the meeting OSCE\u2019s next meeting was held in Vienna, Austria on April 16 with a focus on\u00a0the freedoms of association and assembly\u00a0in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,17,235,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atet","category-xeberler","category-speech","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/atet3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahidov.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}