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‘Ignorant’ Lammy urged to retract Azerbaijan remarks

20 September 2024

3:35 AM

20 September 2024

3:35 AM

It’s a gaffe a day with David Lammy. Now the Foreign Secretary has come under fire after he hailed Azerbaijan for being able to ‘liberate’ territory – in an ongoing conflict widely viewed as an ethnic cleansing operation – in a recent Substack post. Lammy took to his blog to express his unsolicited musings about the Nagorno-Karabakh region, writing:

The states of Central Asia look increasingly east and south.

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