{"id":172594,"date":"2012-04-02T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=172594"},"modified":"2012-04-02T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:36:33","slug":"azerbaijan-does-not-need-israels-help-at-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/04\/02\/azerbaijan-does-not-need-israels-help-at-eurovision.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Doesn&#8217;t Need Israel&#8217;s Help at Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan does not need the assistance of the foreign special services, as well as Israel&#8217;s special services,&#8221; Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Social and Political Department Chief Ali Hasanov told the Baku-based <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.trend.az\/news\/politics\/2009284.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trend news agency<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> today.<\/p>\n<p>Some foreign media outlets have disseminated the information that the security of 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku will be ensured by the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD.<\/p>\n<p>Official Baku considers this information unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s special services and law enforcement bodies will ensure security during the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest,&#8221; Hasanov said.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has every opportunity to fully ensure security at the contest, Hasanov said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s special services are strong, and possess all necessary features of special services,&#8221; he said. &#8220;MOSSAD does not have a secret or special group in Azerbaijan. All ties, mutual relations with the countries cooperating with Azerbaijan are transparent. They are not directed against any country, especially Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 57th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Baku Crystal Hall, which is under construction near the State Flag Square.<\/p>\n<p>The Baku Crystal Hall is the arena with a capacity of up to 23,000 spectators. Approximately 16,000 people will be able to attend each of the three Eurovision Song Contest live shows in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Eurovision 2012 semi-final rounds will be held in Baku on May 22 and May 24 and the final on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan won the right to host the song contest after the victory of Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal (Ell \/ Nikki) at Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany, last May.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan does not need the assistance of the foreign special services, as well as Israel&#8217;s special services,&#8221; Azerbaijani Presidential&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14270,10265,19872,665,40063,40057,40062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}