Ilham Aliyev: Opposition is Anti-National Force

At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the head of state once again attacked the opposition, accusing it of anti-national activities and deliberate blackening of the country during the contest Eurovision 2012.

     According to Aliyev, the competition was unduly politicized. Noting that the competition was organized at a high level, Aliyev said that the anti-Azerbaijani forces united and launched a campaign against this competition.

     First, the campaign of slander was started by the Armenian lobby - the Number One enemy of the Azerbaijani people and the state. The campaign picked up strength due to forces infected with Islamophobia, which could not accept that the Contest was held in a Muslim country. The third group in the classification of Aliyev included envious "local anti-national forces."

    "I would not call them forces. Rather, they are elements. All of them, together, launched a dirty, false and defamatory campaign against Azerbaijan. In foreign and local press, they organized a provocation. For them, and especially for the internal elements, there is one principle: the worse for Azerbaijan, the better," said Aliyev. According to him, anti-national forces drove foreign visitors to the outskirts of Baku to show only "bad things".

    Aliyev reiterated that the 20th Section (an area on the outskirts of Baku) is the best place for opposition rallies. "Before the Eurovision they held meetings there, but when they saw that the number of participants reduced, they began to carry out illegal actions in the city center to attract the attention of the foreign press. It was a provocative step.

    Those who show such a negative attitude towards their people and the state can only be called traitors and anti-national forces," Aliyev declared. -06D-