BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 9
Trend:
You like only to accuse, only to attack. But look in the mirror, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in an interview to the BBC News, Trend reports.
- Instead of accusing me by saying that Armenians will not have free media here, let’s talk about Assange. How many years, sorry, how many years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy, and for what? And where is he now? For the journalistic activity, you kept that person hostage actually killing him morally and physically. You did it, not us. And now he is in prison. So you have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things.
-Returning to the conflict…
-Yes, better return to the conflict, because this is not what you like. You like only to accuse, only to attack. But look at the mirror. I told many times. Before coming and lecturing us and in your question accusing me. It’s not a question, it’s an accusation. You talk like a prosecutor. Why? If you are so democratic and so objective why do you keep Assange in prison? For what? You keep him in prison because of his journalistic activity.
-I am not keeping him in prison President Aliyev.
-You don’t like this.
-It’s not a question you don’t like this.
- You are not used to this.
-It is not the subject of our interview.
-Because you are used only to attack.
-It is not the subject of our interview.
It is not the subject of your interview, but you raise it.
-You raised it.
-No. You raised it.
-You raised the case of Assange.
-You said if you don’t have free media in your country how Armenians can live without opposition? That was your accusation.