Aliyev afferma di non “fidarsi” dell’Armenia lo stesso giorno in cui Baku e Yerevan concordano su un trattato di pace

>Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gave a speech at the 12th Global Baku Forum on Thursday

>Against the backdrop of the unprecedented step towards signing a treaty, Aliyev’s speech was nonetheless full of grievances, conspiracy theories, and attacks on Armenia, France, the EU, and Western media.

>He began the address by extolling what Azerbaijan had achieved in energy reforms and the hosting of the COP29 conference, before quickly switching to allegations that ‘some Western media, which President [Donald] Trump calls fake news’, had engaged in a ‘campaign to discredit Azerbaijan, blackmail us, and spread rumors, and different disinformation’.

>Aliyev singled out ‘the Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, Newsweek, and the Associated Press’ as ‘fake news outlets’ that were ‘just implementing the instructions of the US State Department’. He also mentioned French President Emmanuel Macron, who he has long been at odds with, accusing him and French media of planning a ‘coordinated campaign of blackmail and slander aimed at boycotting COP29’.

>‘All that [Armenians] say, for us, has zero meaning’