The media outlet close to the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev administration demands the expulsion from Baku of the newly appointed UNDP Resident Representative in Azerbaijan, Ekaterina Paniklova, because of her contacts with Armenians.

The respective article, which is by no means the first in terms of various attacks on the UN recently, describes the "misdeeds" of the Armenian employees of this organization.

But this time the periodical went further, adding: "At the same time, we have several important questions for Mrs. Paniklova. For example, what interests link her with the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry? And what about with the former ‘minister’ of the Armenian Diaspora? And with a former security service employee who now works at a Regional Studies Center in Yerevan?”

The vocabulary chosen to write this article deserves special attention. "And if Armenia, that poor and stagnant country with its negative demographics which are almost entirely dependent on the collective handouts of the diaspora and the help of foreign partners, has allowed itself to declare a UN employee persona non grata to it, then ten-million strong Azerbaijan, which is firmly defending its interests to the end, will definitely act very decisively and tough, if the need arises," the article notes, in particular.

To recall, this is more or less how the attacks had started, which ended with the expulsion of the OSCE Office from Baku, and later, due to the weak position of this organization, it was unable to resist the pressure from Azerbaijan, and the OSCE Office in Yerevan was also closed.

Of course, one could ignore this article with blunt expressions against a high-ranking UN representative, considering it the opinion of solely one media outlet. But being close to the Aliyev administration already directly indicates that the idea of discrediting Ekaterina Paniklova comes from there.

In the context of the declared "era of peace" and Aliyev's statements about being ready for peace—albeit on his own terms—, such a publication in that source is a direct evidence of the fact that neither the Azerbaijani authorities nor the society are ready to peacefully coexist with Armenians.