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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

CivilNet: Aliyev’s two personas – one for home, another for the West

CIVILNET.AM
30 Jun, 2022 08:06

In the latest edition of AliyevWatch, a CivilNet series that deconstructs Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s actions and statements, analyst Eric Hacopian unpacks the Baku international forum that took place in June, and Aliyev’s France24 interview during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. He discusses how Aliyev changes his tone and messaging depending on whether he is addressing a domestic audience or a Western audience.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS