WHY DID BAKU FRUSTRATE THE REPORTAGE ON THE NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC?
Azat Artsakh Daily
14 Nov 08
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR]
NKR MFA Information Department’s Commentary Recently, journalists
from the "Russia" channel have paid a working visit to the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic 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 the Azerbaijani
party. 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. We consider it absolutely inadmissible to use the situation
in propagandistic purposes; the informational technologies that distort
the kernel of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be necessarily
rejected. Similar actions negatively affect, first of all, the
Azerbaijani s ociety, 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.