Azerbaijani mass media distort statements of Polish deputies

2009-06-20 10:17:00

ArmInfo. Foreign Ministry of Poland charged its ambassador to
Azerbaijan to express official protest of the Polish party and demand
explanation in connection with false information in Azerbaijani mass
media regarding the statements allegedly made by Polish deputies.

On 16-17 June Polish parliamentary delegation headed by deputy of Seym
Wieslaw Woda was in Baku. Over that period of time Azerbaijnai mass
media disseminated numerous informations about statements allegedly
made by members of the Polish delegation to support of Azerbaijan as
well as condemning ‘barbarities of Armenians’ regarding Azeris.

As a diplomatic source told Arminfo, Armenian Embassy to Poland applied
to Foreign ministry of Poland to get explanation on the matter. As a
reply the ministry officially informed that the information in
Azerbaijani mass media is false and unfounded. Representatives of
Foreign ministry of Poland also said that the propagandist tricks of
the Azerbaijani party have recently passed all the permissible borders.

To get additional explanations of the anti-Armenian statements ascribed
to the Polish parliamentarian, Ambassador of Armenia to Poland had a
phone talk with Vice Premier of Poland Waldemar Pawlak on June 18, who
expressed regret for the above provocation. For his part Leader of the
Parliamentary fraction of the People’s Party of Poland Stanislaw
Zelikowski met with Armenian Ambassador Galoyan the same day and cast
doubts on the reliability of the reports by the Azerbaijani media on
the statements by the parliamentarian Wieslaw Woda . He said the
Azerbaijani propaganda machine had misappropriated the honesty of the
parliamentarian.

Polish Ambassador to Armenia met also with Vice Marshal of the Polish
Sejm Eva Kierzkowska (People’s Party) who also expressed regret for the
incident. She pinned hopes on further friendship of the Armenian-Polish
peoples despite the above provocations.