V. CHAKHALIAN: AUTHORITIES – MEDIA – PEOPLE CONTACT DOES NOT WORK IN JAVAKHK
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 11 2007
AKHALKALAK, JULY 11, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. "The role of
our media should be to present the shortcomings of the local bodies,
but they not only fail to criticize the local authorities, moreover,
they only praise them.
We, representatives of NGOs, do not fulfil our functions, do not
realize our goals, the authorities – media – people contact does not
work," Vahagn Chakhalian, a member of the presidency of the United
Javakhk people’s union, said at the July 9 round table with media
held at the European Center for National Minorities.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by Javakhk-Info, V. Chakhalian in his
speech also attached importance to the issue of presenting culture
through media.
"The central TV companies have never touched upon our culture, while
the works of our painters present Javakhk abroad, but the only media
from "abroad" during the events dedicated to Terian or Jivani is the
first Armenian channel."
Representatives of the Georgian Imedi and Rustavi-2, Akhalkalak’s
ATV-12, and Ninotsminda’s Parvana TV companies, Javakhk’s Youth Radio,
Southern Gate weekly and Javakhk-Info information-analytical center
and members of non-governmental organizations functioning in Javakhk
took part in the round table.
Armen Darbinian, the Chairman of the Civil Forum of Javakhk, said that
the goal of the round table is to present media activities in Javakhk
and to discuss their contribution in the issue of regional integration.
The problems faced by media in Javakhk were presented during the
discussion.
At the end of the meeting, a memorandum on the establishment of
cooperation among Georgian media was made up and presented to the
participants of the round table.