ARMENIAN MEDIA INVOLUNTARILY SUPPORT AZERI AGITATION MACHINE, A NUMBER OF ARTSAKH YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS STATE

NOYAN TAPAN

Dec 24, 2008
STEPANAKERT

The Armenian media are cut off from reality and persistently disregard
the interests of our compatriots living in the liberated territory by
involuntarily supporting the Azeri agitation machine in the information
and psychological war against the Armenians. It was mentioned in the
statement of a number of Artsakh youth organizations addressed to
heads and workers of Armenian media. They consider that the events
happening in the liberated territory, the life of those regions’
population almost are not covered by RA media.

Considering inadmissible the situation formed in the country’s
information sphere and realizing the exclusive role media play
in the issue of formation of that sphere, the statement authors,
in particular, call for "more often and in detail covering the life
of liberated territory’s population, touching upon our compatriots’
problems, informing our citizens of liberated territory’s strategic
importance."

It should be mentioned that on December 9 they had sent an open letter
to RA President Serzh Sargsyan calling for removing the picture of
Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region having become history long ago from
the weather forecast maps broadcast by RA TV companies and replacing
it by the RA and NKR map.

"The everyday show of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region map not
existing from the moment of NKR proclamation on Public Television,
as well as other TV companies every day deeply defames not only RA
and NKR, but also Diaspora’s televiewers. In the political respect it
especially has a negative influence now, when at a stage of conflict
settlement negotiations decisive for the nation, as we all hope,
Armenian diplomacy struggles for protection of Armenian people’s
interests. We demand removing the "Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous
Region picture from metheorological maps shown by all TV companies
and replacing it by the RA and NKR maps," the open letter to the RA
President read.