ARMENIAN "HNCHAKYAN" PARTY WITHDRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF MISINFORMATION AGAINST ARKA NEWS AGENCY
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Jan 16 2007
YEREVAN, January 15. /ARKA/. The Department of Information and
Propaganda, Lebanese chapter of the "Hnchakyan" social and democratic
party, has retracted its own information on the misinformation
allegedly spread by the ARKA News Agency that the Armenian community
in Lebanon is struggling against the country’s authorities.
"It should be noted that the report of the ARKA News Agency does
not contain this information, which is `newspapers’ conjectures’,"
says the party’s press release provided to ARKA.
A representative of the "Sargis Tkhruni" youth and students union,
"Hnchakyan" party, told ARKA that a number of newspapers made their
own comments on the meeting between Catholicos of the Great House of
Cilicia Aram I and the US Ambassador.
"In their information the newspapers refer to ARKA, and we had the
impression that the information was spread by your news agency,"
he said, offering his official apology to the editor of the ARKA
News Agency.
The Department of Information and Propaganda, Lebanese chapter of the
"Hnchakyan" social and democratic party spread the misinformation
this morning.
The ARKA News Agency urges political parties to verify the original
information before making any statements. The news on the meeting
between Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I and the US
Ambassador was on the ARKA web-site for free access.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
