ARMENIAN TV CHANNELS OCCUPY AIR SPACE IN NEAR-BORDER VILLAGES OF AZERBAIJAN’S GAZAKH REGION
Azeri Press Agency
June 23 2008
Azerbaijan
Gazakh. Nazaket Mashadialigizi, Ilhama Isabalayeva-APA. Armenian TV
channels have occupied the air space in near-border Gushchu Ayrim,
Mazam and Farahli villages of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh Region. Local
channels except AzTV are not available in near-border areas. Armenia
installed TV transmitter in near-border area three years ago and
doesn’t allow the Azerbaijani TV channels to air in the above-mentioned
villages.
Local residents can watch the local TV channels via satellite
antennas, but the waves of Armenian transmitters enter into their
airs too. Broadcasting of Azerbaijani TV channels are breached
in the evenings particularly. Local residents said despite that
they did not know Armenian language they understood that Armenians
conducted serious TV propaganda on Nagorno Karabakh. They show their
flag over Shusha at the end of advertising spots. Deputy Head of the
Gazakh Regional Executive Authority Farman Hagdaliyev told APA local
bureau they repeatedly appealed the relative organizations on this
problem, but no concrete measures have been taken yet. Nagdaliyev
said mobile communication was weak in near-border areas of Azerbaijan,
but Armenia’s Armencell is quite stronger there. Even Armenians send
message "Welcome to Armenian land" via mobile phones.
Technical director of Teleradio production enterprise of the Ministry
of Communication and Information Technology of Azerbaijan Mikayil
Abbasov told APA that his organization organized only AzTV and
Republican radio broadcasting over the territory of the republic. He
said they had installed transmitters for AzTV broadcasting in all
three villages – Gushchu Ayrim, Mazam and Farahli of Gazakh Region
and thee was no problem in this field. Regarding to other local
channels, Abbasov said they should purchase and install transmitters
for improving of quality of their broadcasting. "According to the
instructions of International Telecommunication Union, wave of one
channel in near-border area can cover 300 km territory. Therefore
Armenian channels enter into our air space and our channels into the
Armenian space".
Senior Adviser of the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technologies Gulam Abdullayev told APA that they would investigate
Armencell activeness in the territory of Gazakh Region.