LobbyWatch Azerbaijan was founded in France in 2023 with the aim of uncovering Azerbaijan's influence strategies in France and elsewhere in the world.
Azerbaijan, a quasi-totalitarian dictatorship since its independence in 1991, has been trying for several decades to make people forget its crimes against its own population, but also against that of its neighboring country, Armenia, by buying support abroad.
Numerous international media, including Le Monde and the OCCRP in 2017, have denounced - with documents and evidence to back them up - the “caviar diplomacy” deployed by the dictatorship, particularly within European bodies such as the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe (PACE). Nevertheless, whether it's the Bundestag in Germany or the Assemblée Nationale in France, no parliament is truly spared the attempts at corruption and bribe payments proposed by Azerbaijan's agents in France, or by its intermediaries.
With the first election of Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 French presidential elections, Azerbaijan has renewed its approach strategies, which have become more pernicious and discreet than before.
LobbyWatch Azerbaijan's mission since its creation has been to shed light on these strategies, in addition to exposing its players, so that the public knows the names and faces of the corrupters and corrupted of the dictatorship, in France e
