Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to 'hush up' the issue for days.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia , albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to 'hush up' the issue for days.'We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia . We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,' he told Azerbaijani state television.
AP PHOTOHe said that an investigation into the crash was ongoing, and that 'the final version will be known after the black boxes are opened.'He noted that Azerbaijan was always 'in favor of a group of international experts' investigating the crash, and had 'categorically refused' Russia's suggestion that the Interstate Aviation Committee, which oversees civil aviation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, investigate it.
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