NOT ALL AZERI MASS MEDIA HAVE JOINED IN THE NEW MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OF THE AZERI DEFENSE MINISTRY

ArmInfo
2009-02-27 18:01:00

ArmInfo. The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has issued the following press statement:

"We have already got used to Azerbaijan’s misinformations concerning
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The comments on the wrecking of the
Feb 26 OSCE monitoring of the Azeri-NKR contact line near Horadiz
are not an exception.

Many Azeri news agencies have hurried to spread the statement of the
Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan, which blames the Nagorno-Karabakh side
for the incident. Azeri newspapers have appeared with articles like
"Armenian Separatists Have Wrecked OSCE Monitoring."

However, it has turned out that not all Azeri mass media are going to
join in this misinformation campaign. For example, says:
"It was clear that the monitoring group was fired at from the Azeri
side, which can be confirmed by the members of the group."

To remind, earlier the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of NKR reported that on February 26, the OSCE mission scheduled to
conduct a regular monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh
and Azerbaijani Armed Forces near Horadiz settlement of Fizouli region.

However, from the very beginning of the monitoring a single-round
firing was opened in the direction of coordinator of the OSCE
office Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistant of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Irji Aberle (Czech
Republic), who conducted the monitoring from the positions of the NKR
Defense Army, and the representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defense
and Foreign Affairs, accompanying them. Then, burst of machine-gun
fire was opened from the Azerbaijani positions that passed to the
left from the monitoring group.

Afterwards, another single shot was made in the direction of the
mission.

Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk, who headed the monitoring group from the Azerbaijani
territory ordered to stop the monitoring.

Besides, the Azerbaijani party did not lead the OSCE mission to the
arranged point of its front- lines once again.