IS AZERBAIJAN TRYING TO INFLUENCE HUNGARIAN PUBLIC VIA MEDIA?

Yerevan, April 10. ArmInfo. A group of Hungarian journalists has
visited Azerbaijan on the invitation of the Azeri Embassy in Hungary
and the Azeri State Committee on Azeris Abroad.

The Hungarian guests have met with representatives of the presidential
administration, the state committee on refugees and displaced persons,
the defence, foreign, culture and tourism ministries, the state oil
company. They have fully justified the expectations of the hosts by
promising them to tell the Hungarian public what they have seen and
heard in Azerbaijan.

In a press-conference the editor of the Szemle magazine, doctor Nagi
Laszlo Sandos said: “We wanted to see your country and to tell the
Hungarian people the truth about Azerbaijan.” “We have been provided
with detailed information about the Armenian-Azeri conflict, have seen
its bitter consequences: Apr 5 we visited refugee camps in Sabirabad,
Bilasuvar and Imishlin to see the living conditions of the people
expelled from their homes as a result of the conflict. What we have
seen and heard was completely different from what we knew before,”
says Sandos.

Asked about Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, facing life in prison in
Hungary for killing his Armenian counterpart, the Hungarian guests
said that Hungarian judges are independent and nobody can pressure
them. Obviously, the Safarov trial was the key reason why the Azeri
side has invited the Hungarian journalists to Baku.