IRANIAN TV REPRESENTED KARABAKH AS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC. BAKU DISCONTENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.06.2006 17:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Baku expressed discontent over the fact that the
State Iranian Television presented Nagorno Karabakh as an independent
republic on the news. As head of the press office of the Congress of
Azerbaijanis of the World Ali Nicat stated, in a report covering the
Bucharest talks of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Iran TV 1
journalist said, “The Independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic proclaimed
its independence 15 years ago. Now Azerbaijan raises territorial claims
to the republic.” “We perceive it as a threat to Azerbaijan from the
direction of Iran, since Southern Azerbaijan has an information outlet
into the world via the Azerbaijani republic only. With such threats
Iran wishes to force Azerbaijan to close this outlet,” he said,
reported Day.az.