23/11/2009 17:24
President Ilham Aliev’s guilty look
I was one of the journalists invited to cover the Munich talks on November 22. Armenia’s President Serge Sargsyan seemed to be a little late while OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliev were standing in the hall, just close to the meeting-room.
President Aliev was standing pensive and silent. It was something I do know very well – just in a sudden I realized; it was a one of my 9-year-old son’s face when he is going to do something contrary to the canons of our family rules. That was a real face and look of a guilty student.
I thought it was unusual, but at the same time, actually, it looks like he knows that international community has its own rules. And something suitable to Baku ‘life-style’ will be sort ill with international lay-out. Well, that certainly didn’t take long to wait, besides…
I am a journalist, not expert on negotiations or a metoposcopist. But President Ilham Aliev’s guilty look certainly meant the negotiations would be again of no effect as he himself questions whether he took a right step.
A.S.