"ARMENIA", SONG PERFORMED BY TATA SIMONYAN, APPEARED ON SALE IN BAKU
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
03.07.2009 16:20 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In a letter adressed to Azerbaijani Day.Az newspaper,
one of readers – citizen Rishad Aliyev, informed the editorial staff
that one of Baku’s DVD/CD shops sold Best Russian Lyric MP3 disk
which contained a patriotic song in Armenian. The song "Armenia"
performed by Tata Simonyan was not so pleasing to the ear, as half
of it was in the Armenian language, he wrote.
After receiving the message, the newspaper turned to Culture and
Tourism Ministry which announced that "Disks with Armenian songs should
not be sold in Azerbaijan. If there is anyone missing Armenian songs,
he/she is welcome to go to Armenia. The sale of such disks is a step
against Azerbaijan," Azerbaijan’s Tourism and Culture Ministry’s
press service reported.
In his turn Milli Majlis deputy Aydin Mirzazadeh, member of ruling
"Iyeni Azerbaijan" party, finds that circulating such disks is an act
of subversion against Azerbaijan. "It is impossible to characterize
it otherwise," Azeri official said in response top the newspaper’s
question.
Day.Az in the meantime expressed hope that "responsible agencies will
not leave the issue unattended since selling Armenian patriotic songs
in Baku poses a serious threat to the country."