CORRECTION OF "MISTAKE" OR WHAT AZERBAIJAN SHOULD DO TO MAIL.RU

Today.Az
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Oct 29 2008
Azerbaijan

Russian portal MAIL.Ru corrected its "mistake" only after interference
of the Azerbaijani embassy to Russia.

Day.Az has received a letter from the adviser of the Azerbaijani
embassy to Russia B.Zeynalov, which says:

"In the result of efforts of the Azerbaijani embassy to Russia the
link to Armenia-Nagorno Karabakh was removed from MAIL.Ru on October
27 and Nagorno Karabakh was fixed as part of Azerbaijan.

But at the same time the section on Armenia again included the link
"Armenia-Artsakh".

Due to this fact the embassy again contacted the website administrators
and demanded to remove this link, which was attained by 17:00 Moscow
time.

The embassy will watch the situation and spare no efforts for aversion
of such facts in the future…"

It should be noted that by removing "Artsakh" from the division
"Armenia", MAIL.RU also removed the section Nagorno Karabakh from
the section on Azerbaijan.

What has caused the impunity of the Armenian employees of the Russian
portal?

Let’s take a small trip to history. The events started to develop
just six months ago.

First of all, Azerbaijani websites, including Day.Az, APA and
Trend were removed from the rating of new agencies of MAIL.RU
by different trumped-up reasons.

After the news services of MAIL.RU was launched, it started to export
openly anti-Azerbaijani materials, mostly using the pro-Armenian
source Regnum.

Thus, the precise and consistent work of the Armenian officials of
MAIL.RU is obvious both in neutralization of Azerbaijani mass medias
and introducing Armenian interpretation of history to Russian readers.

It is now necessary to consolidate actions of the Foreign Ministry,
State Committee for work with Azerbaijanis, residing abroad,
Azerbaijani embassy to Russia, famous Azerbaijanis, playing an
important role in the sociopolitical life of Russia. It is our duty
to avert the actions of MAILRU aimed at distortion of history of
Azerbaijan, "Armenization" of Nagorno Karabakh in the eyes of wide
public of Russia.

Two months ago Azerbaijan gave a good lesson to the systems of
international monetary transfers – Western Union and MoneyGram.

After the facts of cooperation with Nagorno Karabakh separatists
were revealed in the work of these companies, it was decided to stop
business ties with them on July 30.

The managements of the companies were informed about the claims of the
national bank, inadmissibility of cooperation with Armenian separatists
of Nagorno Karabakh and they were demanded to stop such events.

The companies accepted all provisions of the National Bank and
on August 7 they cut all contacts with the occupied lands of
Azerbaijan. They announced that they will not accept such facts in
the future.

This issue was settled within 7 days.

And if today Armenian officials of MAIL.RU are openly mocking at us,
why not close MAIL.RU from Azerbaijan? We should close delivery
of messages from the emails at @mail.ru network to the emails of
Azerbaijani users, in other words, to response adequately. After it
other Russian sites will assess the degree of the adequate response,
before posting anti-Azerbaijani materials.

In other words, we must not stay idle. Otherwise, considering the
great number of ethnic Armenians, occupying not the lowest positions
in the Russia media area, this process may further develop and then
within a short period of time no one in Russia will believe that
Nagorno Karabakh is an Azerbaijani land.