Azerbaijan is deliberately trying to involve Israel and the Jewish public in the senseless information confrontation with Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora, which has nothing to do with the interests of the Jews. Specifically, an article entitled “Azerbaijani, Turkish and Jewish Diasporan organizations turn to Barack Oabma” is available on the Azeri 1news.az website. The article contains an anti-Armenian message signed by a number of organizations.

By “Jewish Diasporsan organizations” the authors most likely mean the Cultural Center of Caucasian Jews (CCCJ). In any case, no other organizations with a Jewish component are listed.

A representative of Armenia’s civil sector, who is in close touch with South Caucasian NGOs, told NEWS am that the CCCJ is headquartered in Baku. It has about ten members residing in the Azerbaijani capital. They are either Jews or persons of mixed race (Azeri-Jewish mixed marriages).

“A letter to Obama is information bluff. No Jewish organizations have signed it. Jews have questions to put to Obama, especially the community’s influential organizations. Azerbaijan created this structure to make use of the name of Israel and issue statements on behalf of the Jews to achieve its own aims,” the source said.

A number of Turkish and Azerbaijani Diasporan organizations addressed a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama raising issues related to the situation in the South Caucasus and to the prospects of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. It was kind of response to a similar step made by the Armenian Assembly of America, which requested the U.S. leader to make an estimate of Turkey’s policy. Turkey is not going to meet the requirements set by the road map of Armenian-Turkish rapprochement, which was agreed with the Armenian and Turkish Foreign Offices through the mediation of Switzerland. The U.S. Armenian lobby is sure that Turkey is shirking its commitments – it conditions the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.