Israeli weapons quietly helped (((Azerbaijan))) recapture Nagorno-Karabakh

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Published on Oct 20, 2023
(5 Oct 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 02 October 2023
1. Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Israel, Mukhtar Mammadov, entering his office at the embassy
2. Close of photograph of Azerbaijan’s leader Ilham Aliyev
3. Close of Israeli and Azerbaijani flags
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mukhtar Mammadov, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Israel:
“Over the course of these 31 years we were able to develop quite close partnership with Israel, which we consider a strategic partnership, cooperation in various fields. Back in the nineties it started with energy cooperation. Azerbaijan started about 25 years ago providing oil supplies. Now we provide up to 40% of oil, the amount of Israel still going on.“
5. Close of Mammadov
6. Close of Mammadov’s hands
7. Various of the ambassador
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mukhtar Mammadov, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Israel:
“We have cooperation with various countries. Israel is not an exclusion in this field, is not the only country. And we're glad for this cooperation. It was quite supportive and quite beneficial for the defense. Now that we have regained our territorial integrity and sovereignty after almost 40 years of aggression, occupation, we're looking into investing more into rehabilitation, reconstruction, rebuilding to make better lives for all our citizens.”
9. Close of the flag of Azerbaijan
10. Mid of plaque for the Embassy of Armenia in Israel
11. Wide of front entrance to the embassy
12. Armenia’s ambassador to Israel, Arman Akopian, entering his office in the embassy
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Arman Akopian, Armenia’s ambassador to Israel:
“It's a huge human tragedy that's unfolding just in front of our eyes, and it certainly deserves much more attention than it gets. If you ask about Israel's involvement, of course, Israel is not involved directly in any way, but there is a very strong military, strategic and intelligence partnership between Israel and Azerbaijan. And Azerbaijan (he means Israel) is one of the major weapons suppliers for Azerbaijan - Israel I mean.”
14. Armenia’s ambassador in his office
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Arman Akopian, Armenia’s ambassador to Israel:
“Azerbaijan buys several billion dollars worth of weapons from Israel, and Azerbaijan itself reported that its success, you know, during the second Karabakh war was largely due to the Israeli and Turkish armaments that they had bought during the previous decades. And we've even seen, unfortunately, the Azeri president posing in front of the Israeli drone. And the social media are full of words of appreciation and gratitude for Israel for supporting Azerbaijan in this war. So this is a very unfortunate thing.”
16. Close of art piece in the Armenian language
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Arman Akopian, Armenia’s ambassador to Israel:
“Israel has always been trying to be neutral in this situation. But we think that the current situation, it goes beyond neutrality, because it's now more than politics. It's a huge moral, humanitarian issue. And I don't see why Israel should not be in a position to express at least some concern about the fate of those people who are being expelled from their homeland of 3,000 years. If something like that happens to the Jewish people, I'm sure Israel would have anticipated a strong response from every country in the world.”
18. Close of Armenian emblem
STORYLINE:

The cargo flights have rattled Armenian officials long discomfited by the strategic alliance between Israel and Azerbaijan and shined a light on Israel’s national interests in the restive region south of the Caucasus Mountains.

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