The issue of withdrawal from the Council of Europe was discussed here. You know our media well, because I do not have any information about any Azerbaijani official expressing such an opinion. But the media is free and can write whatever they want. Naturally, we react to the public opinion and every government should first consider the public opinion.

That President Ilham Aliyev said this at a meeting with a delegation of the EU Council of the Political and Security Committee.

The President stressed that the public opinion about the Council of Europe was not so positive.