HERITAGE PARTY MP – ARMENIAN MEDIA MUST USE CORRECT MAP OF THE NKR
Shushan Stepanyan
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2009/06/10 | 19:06
Important Society
At a National Assembly question and answer period held today, Heritage
Party Deputy Stoypa Safaryan touched upon the unprecedented number
of journalists assaulted during the 2008-2009 period.
He mentioned the incidents involving Gagik Shamshyan, Lousineh
Barseghyan, Gohar Veziryan, Edik Baghdasaryan, Argishti Kiviryan and
Nver Mnatsakanyan.
We would have hoped that the government felt the responsibility to
inform us and the public as to how the criminal processes in these
cases is proceeding and if the assailants haven’t been revealed,
why haven’t they?" Mr. Safaryan asked.
Turning to the Karabakh issue, Heritage Party Deputy Larisa Alaverdyan
took up the issue of the map of the NKR used in Armenia. She said that
she had been pursuing the matter for the past four months with the
government without any official reply. Deputy Alaverdyan noted that
only the ALM TV station uses the map printed by the RoA government
that shows a united NKR and RoA.
"This has the force of a document even though the map displayed on
the presidential website is the 1989 map. When will the other mass
media in Armenia stop using maps that do not correspond to current
reality," Deputy Safaryan asked.
RoA Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan said that he would review
the matter with the State Property Registry to see all the legal
ramifications involved.
Deputy Alaverdyan was not satisfied with the deputy prime minister’s
answer. Holding up a copy of the government printed map she said,
"This map is included in the national atlas published in Armenia and
serves as a document of sorts. For the past ten years we have not
only been trampling the NKR constitution underfoot but the agreed
protocol here. A review of the matter isn’t an acceptable answer for
me. Either the rule of law works or it doesn’t."