WATCH: Aliyev Blows Up Merz's Denial: Yes, There Was a Secret Russia Meeting in Baku.

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WATCH: Aliyev Blows Up Merz's Denial: Yes, There Was a Secret Russia Meeting in Baku. At his joint press conference with Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev publicly confirmed that a secret German-Russian backchannel meeting took place in Baku on July 12–14 — moments after Merz flatly denied knowing anything about it. Asked by Deutsche Welle's Roman Goncharenko about German media reports of "an informal German-Russian meeting" with "former high-ranking polit