Press Review for 2/10/12

Official newspapers reported on the meeting of President Ilham Aliyev with Former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. State newspapers also publish an order awarding a large group of educators and prosecutors.

Azadlig

The paper calls the refusal to discuss the fraud scandal with MP Guler Ahmedova in the Parliament a taboo by the authorities on the subject.

Experts regard the inclusion of poems by President Ilham Aliyev's daughter in 5th grade textbooks as elementary sycophancy.

Commenting on the debate in the U.S. Congress on the issue of South Azerbaijan, Vice Speaker Ziyafat Askerov said that Azerbaijan has no territorial claims against Iran.

The MP Siyavush Novruzov called the United States a "provocateur".

Zerkalo 

Official Baku considers pointless the negotiations on the Karabakh issue and it evaluates the measures taken by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in order to persuade Azerbaijan to continue the negotiations as a provocation.

Express 

Of the privatized 84 kindergartens, only 8 continue their work as kindergartens.

Echo writes that Azerbaijan does not fulfill the requirements of the European Convention on combating cyber crime.

Novoye Vremya, commenting on the initiative of adopting the Code of Ethics of MPs, quotes the fable by I. Krylov: "And you, my friends, can take any seats, but you're not fit as musicians."

Bizim Yol reports that Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov arrested the building of the former International University, whose activities were suspended in 2010

Yeni Musavat: MP Gular Ahmedova, commenting on the scandal with the video recording of her bribe taking, said that she could spread similar videos "of many people."-0 -