No one asked David Lammy to blast his long-form musings on a Substack blog. But if he is going to share them, Britain’s top diplomat had better not soft-pedal ethnic cleansing – nor parrot the talking points of a corrupt petro-dictatorship menacing stability in the strategically sensitive South Caucasus region.
That’s just what Lammy did on 16 September when he hailed Azerbaijan for its conquest of a long-disputed territory known as Nagorno-Karabakh that saw the involuntary exodus of more than 100,000 indigenous Armenians. Or as the foreign secretary put it: “Azerbaijan has been able to liberate territory it lost in the early 1990s.”
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