BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 30. European
institutions must issue a firm response regarding the scandal
surrounding former International Criminal Court prosecutor and
active Armenian lobbyist Luis Moreno Ocampo, Azerbaijani Milli
Majlis (parliament) deputy Rasim Musabeyov on social media on
Thursday while commenting on the controversial recordings of
Ocampo’s conversations, Trend reports.


“It has long been known that Armenian lobbying organizations
have turned their activities into a dirty business. The former ICC
prosecutor Ocampo and his son cynically buy off Members of the
European Parliament and EU officials, pushing various resolutions
and statements that in essence are incapable of causing real harm
to Azerbaijan — this is a fact. However, since this activity brings
concrete dividends to these unscrupulous actors, it will be
impossible to stop it without the intervention of Belgian law
enforcement. One may dismiss the attacks of Ocampo and similar
figures with contempt. It is очевидно that the goal of the
campaigns they organize today is to remove Nikol Pashinyan and the
‘Civil Contract’ party from power, and here European structures,
which claim to support pro-European forces in Armenia, must have
their say,” he added.


Earlier, the video recordings of conversations between Luis Ocampo and
his son were published today, in which he states that a person who
previously served as a legal adviser to former EU foreign policy
chief Josep Borrell is working on his team. According to Ocampo,
through this individual he intends to influence voting in the
European Parliament, exert pressure on European Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen, and steer European policy in a
desired direction.


In addition, Ocampo outlines a broader strategy: to use the
European Court to seek termination of the EU’s energy contract with
Azerbaijan by leveraging human rights allegations, and to
coordinate actions with the Armenian lobby in the United
States.


In a conversation with an unidentified interlocutor, Ocampo’s
son Tomas speaks about the need to secure the resignation of
Armenia’s current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.