MINISTER: ARMENIA CONDUCTS IDEOLOGICAL WAR AGAINST AZERBAIJAN
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 28 2007
Russia, Moscow / corr. Trend R.Agayev / "The Armenian State and
diasporas conduct ideological war against Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis
all over the world, as well as in Russia. It may be explained as
unbridled theft by the Armenians, of rich historical and cultural
heritage of the Azeri people, including national music, cuisine, works
of art and many other things,. Fabricating the history and culture
is the key direction of Armenians’ activities," the Minister of Culture
In addition, he said that the aggressive military action of the
Armenians in the territories of Azerbaijan against the Azerbaijanis
have now transferred to ideological war and therefore the Armenian
diasporas carry out active anti-Azerbaijani activities all over the
world. " Azerbaijan needs time to prove that the military actions
between Azerbaijan and Armenia have not occurred in just one centimeter
of the Armenian territories. The military actions have happened in
the territories of Azerbaijan and as a result, the Azerbaijan land
has been captured.
At present, the policy of appropriating the music, national cuisine,
national culture, works of the Azerbaijani composers and painters,
etc. is a continuous ideological fight. We need to become more active,
but the media should also do more. Music DVDs are already issued,
but this should be disseminated by individual persons. We have not
had the opportunity to issue large numbers of DVDs to be spread
worldwide. The reality of the situation needs to be publicized. We
invite foreign media representatives to Azerbaijan. At the moment,
the media representatives of France are in Azerbaijan and the
journalists from Germany will visit in the near future. We do not
support falsification, we support the truth. But everyone inaccurately
blames the State, the Azerbaijani diasporas should also be active
everywhere, especially in Russia. It needs to uphold its ideological
fight on all fronts," the Minister said.
Garayev stressed that a monument has been erected in Yerevan
for the musical instrument of Azerbaijan (balaban) and the
measures to propagate the culture of Azerbaijan are response
measures. "The activities of Armenia in the sphere of culture are
the open continuation of the occupant policy of Armenia state and the
saturated idea "Great Armenia from sea to sea". Recently the President
of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, stated that the present territories of
Armenia are the old lands of Azerbaijan (Irevan khanate). 180 years
ago we sheltered Armenians in the territories of Azerbaijan and in
response we have received aggression from them.
This year we will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the creation
of the Irevan Theatre which testifies that 70% of the population of
Armenia were Azerbaijanis at that time and that the Azerbaijanis have
created this theatre. Therefore, it does not need to be surprised at
the tricks of the Armenians, but to be more active and participate
in all measures," the Minister underlined.
Speaking about the results of his visit to Moscow, Garayev said that
he held a number of useful meetings with the Culture Minister of
Russia, Alexander Sokolov, Head of the Federal Agency for Culture
and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvidkim, Head of the Agency’s Moscow
Department, Khudyakov. Garayev stressed that he has been invited to
attend the jubilee of Mistislav Rastrapovich who will be honored with
the presence of the Azerbaijan President, Ilham Aliyev. In addition,
Garayev said that the Year of Russia successfully took place in
Azerbaijan. He said that the Year of Azerbaijan will take place in
2008 in Germany.
"In April the Culture Days of Azerbaijan will be held in Moscow,
Samara, Chelyabinsk, Saint-Petersburg, Krasnodar and other cities
of Russia. We have discussed two projects on joint movies and the
cinematographers of Azerbaijan will be represented at the International
Cinematographic Film Festival in Moscow. In addition, a very important
agreement has been reached with regards to bibliography and museum
work. Moreover, preparation is made for the cultural conference
which will take place in Baku. We have reached an agreement on a
State student exchange between Azerbaijan and Russia," Garayev said.
Garayev underlined that he attended two tourism exhibitions in
Moscow and held productive talks with the heads of four large tourism
companies in Russia.
The Minister said that the Culture Days of Azerbaijan will be held
in Moscow between 16 and 19 April and Culture Days of Moscow in
Azerbaijan in September.
Attending the conference, the Department Chief of Federal Agency
for Culture Azerbaijan is the closet spiritual colleague of Russia,"
she said.