NKR MFA: RUSSIA CHANNEL REPORT ON KARABAKH CANCELLED OVER AZERI PRESSURE
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.11.2008 18:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Journalists from the Russia TV Channel have
paid a working visit to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Recently to
prepare a corresponding survey for the Vesti Nedeli program. The
journalists prepared a commentary on the peaceful life and post-war
rehabilitation of Nagorno Karabakh, and, at their request, the
corresponding structures of NKR arranged meetings with official and
public representatives of the Republic and organized visits to the
institutions, enterprises, etc. However, as it turned out later,
after the commentary was covered in the Far Eastern region of the
Russian Federation, the coverage of the material was stopped in other
regions, under the pressure of Azerbaijan, says a statement by the
NKR Foreign Ministry.
"Who could dislike the fair survey on the peaceful life in the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic? The answer is simple: Baku fears the truth about
Nagorno Karabakh that for the years of its independence, the Republic
has successfully solved all the issues and has progressively developed.
It’s absolutely inadmissible to use the situation in propagandistic
purposes; the informational technologies that distort the core of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be necessarily rejected. Similar
actions negatively affect, first of all, the Azerbaijani society,
as deluding it on the Nagorno Karabakh issue Baku brings all the
peacemaking initiatives to naught.
Moreover, this absurd incident testifies that the leadership of the
Russia Channel under the pressure of the Azerbaijani authorities
displays "caution", ipso facto preventing the TV viewers of the
Russian Federation from getting trustworthy information on the NKR
and sets a sad example both to other TV channels and periodicals,"
the statement says.