Ref: 0603/12/24/02
Brussels, September 18, 2024
Mr. Dorian de Meeûs
Editor-in-chief of La Libre Belgique
Brussels
Dear Mr. de Meeûs,
On September 11, former journalist and current Belgian MP Michel De Maegd published a rather sharp and subjective op-ed in your newspaper, attacking my country, Azerbaijan, with deliberately false information and slander.
In this regard, I would like to send you the response from the Azerbaijani Embassy in Belgium and kindly request that you publish it promptly on Lalibre.be.
A journalist, even if he is no longer one, should always verify his sources and continue to cross-check the elements he presents with greater professionalism. This is especially true for someone who, as some circles in Belgium claim, harbors ministerial ambitions in a new government of this country.
In his “opinion” titled “How Ilham Aliyev and His Big Brother Vladimir Putin Stir Separatism in Europe,” De Maegd suggests that a grand political and diplomatic maneuver, orchestrated from distant Baku, is underway to destabilize