07/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - Baku criticises EU joint statement. On Tuesday 6 May, the spokesperson for Azerbaijan's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Elman Abdullayev, criticised the EU joint statement that denounced the intensification of pressure against human rights and reconciliation activists (see EUROPE 11072). According to Azeri media, Abdullayev expressed the view that the statement was of a “political nature” and fell “short of the reality on the ground”. The statement...