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BAKU – The US embassy in Azerbaijan on Friday condemned the recent release of confidential cables by the WikiLeaks website.

"The United States strongly condemns the illegal and reprehensible disclosure of classified information," Charge d’Affaires Adam Sterling said in a statement. "As Secretary Clinton said earlier this week, ‘It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems…. There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."

The statement said Washington "deeply regrets" the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential.

It said further that while the US government will not comment on or confirm details of documents purported to contain classified information, it "can speak to the diplomatic community’s practice of cable writing".

"Cables reflect the internal day-to-day analysis and candid assessments that feed the foreign relations deliberations of governments. Cables are often preliminary and incomplete expressions of foreign policy, and they have no standing on their own nor do they represent US policy," Sterling said.