{"id":107049,"date":"2024-11-05T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=107049"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:28:18","slug":"politico-azerbaijani-ambassador-in-brussels-has-threatened-to-kill-his-armenian-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/107049\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO: Azerbaijani ambassador in Brussels has threatened to kill his Armenian counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Armenian Embassy has lodged a formal protest with other diplomatic missions in Brussels after its ambassador claimed to have been on the receiving end of death threats from his Azerbaijani counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>A letter circulated to envoys last week, seen by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/armenia-ambassador-tigran-balayan-azerbaijan-ambassador-vaqif-sadiqov-death-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO<\/a>, alleged that Armenian Ambassador Tigran Balayan was &ldquo;verbally attacked and intimidated&rdquo; by Azerbaijani Ambassador Vaqif Sadiqov, who &ldquo;voiced explicit threats against his life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The incident is said to have happened at a reception at the Tangla Hotel in Brussels, hosted by the Turkish Embassy in honor of the country&rsquo;s national day. It is understood to have been the first Ankara-sponsored engagement the Armenian Embassy had been invited to since a 2020 war between the country and Azerbaijan, a close ally of Turkey. However, speaking to POLITICO, Sadiqov denied the incident had taken place, saying such allegations were &ldquo;becoming ridiculous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian Embassy has lodged a formal protest with other diplomatic missions in Brussels after its ambassador claimed to have been on the receiving end of death threats from his Azerbaijani counterpart. A letter circulated to envoys last week, seen by POLITICO, alleged that Armenian Ambassador Tigran Balayan was &ldquo;verbally attacked and intimidated&rdquo; by Azerbaijani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":107041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,95,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}