WikiLeaks website disclosed a conversation between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with Daniel Fried Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. The officials discussed key regional topics, including relations between the neighboring states.

Referring to Georgian-Russian relations, Fried stressed that Saakashvili needs a “steady friend who knows the neighborhood.” The U.S. cannot always be such a friend, but Georgia was Azerbaijan’s strategic partner, and Azerbaijan could be this friend.

“Russia was displeased with Azerbaijani Government support to Georgia, especially last winter’s gas sales, but Aliyev said that ‘Russia has Armenia, we have Georgia.’ Although Saakashvili sometimes ‘talks stupidly,’ Aliyev said ‘he wouldn’t do anything stupid’,” the cable reads.