Azerbaijan, he said, can serve "as a model for stability and tolerance, combining tradition, history, openness, and the universal values of the modern world."The Aliyev regime has a long history of persecution of religion and free speech, and of blatantly violating basic election procedures. That doesn't quite suggest a "model for... the universal values of the modern world" to me.
But hey, maybe that's why I'm not Vice President.
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