From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:48:53 +0000, Adam wrote:
>
>>> But really I barely have enough time to know what going on
here. 
>> Buzy days. Mind what goes in your tea though .
>>
>> How's the shutdown of "opposition features" in
Azerbaijan going down?
>
> Boy to say that I have drink more tea in the last 6 months then in the
> rest of my life would be an understatement.   It is definitely in the
> culture here.
>

Indeed. Polonium or sugar? It's why powerful people have always tended to
no sugar no milk, just tea & hot water, prepared within sight 


> Obviously for a number of reasons, I can't talk much about what we are
> doing in that area here, but I would say that we are doing as much and
> getting as strong of a message across as any other country here.  I
> haven't seen much light between us and any EU countries and I haven't seen
> any stronger action from them then from us.  During the incident at the
> newspaper, it was US Embassy personnel that actually got the people inside
> so they could remove their computers and stuff and resume publishing
> quickly.  There were also a rep there from the UK Embassy at the event.
>

Oh Good. However given the eternal "interests vs ethics" tug of
war wrt a foreign gov.....hmmm...landing rights for USAF or.....protesting
the attack on any opposition forces etc. it's nice to see that at the very
least the power ministries around the dear leader can be pressured.

It will be interesting to see if this EU/Greek Cypriot - Turkish falling
out will have any effects in Baku

Adam

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