Azerbaijan is likely to believe that Washington needs Baku more than vice versa, said the former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Kauzlarich during hearings in the Congress on “Azerbaijan. If human rights are important.”

According to him, to develop the strategic relationships one needs the same values , whereas the expected referendum alienates those values more, than they are. Peaceful diplomacy did not work, therefore the United States should pass on the active diplomacy, said Kauzlarich.

By saying an active diplomacy, he implies, calling back the ambassador and freezing of financial assets of the representative of the Azerbaijani system. The journalist Khadija Ismayilova, in her turn, being connected via Skype, spoke about terrible conditions in prisons Azerbaijan.