DAY.AZ MAKES STATEMENT REGARDING PUBLICATIONS IN ARMENIAN MEDIA

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Oct 28 2009
Azerbaijan

Recently, Armenian Web site News.am published an article which
expressed dissatisfaction with a Day.Az section.

The article, undersigned by Andranik Stepanian, was entirely devoted
to Day.Az section "Funny stories about the Armenian Foreign Ministry."

Dear Mr. Stepanian,

First of all, thank you for your positive assessment of our resource:
"editorial staff and journalists of this Web site [Day.Az – editor’s
note] try to consistently adhere to their key slogan: "We only deliver
…. " Events and facts are delivered online, the structure of the
articles is interesting and regional developments are highlighted
profoundly and systematically."

And now let’s talk about main point of your article.

It is interesting that the stylistic and structural model of the
article undersigned by "Andranik Stepanian" makes an impression that
the Armenian officials, possibly, from the Armenian Foreign Ministry,
were involved in this story as authors or co-authors. In principle,
this is understandable, since this Day.Az section deals with activities
of the Armenian Foreign Ministry and, apparently, the articles produce
the desired effect.

We, on our part, would like to remind the gentlemen that while
introducing "Funny stories about the Armenian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs" section, Day.Az stated its main purpose in advance:

"OUR PRIMARY GOAL IS NOT ONLY HUMOR. WE DO THIS NOT FOR A FUN

This is just a next attempt to show everyone, including Armenian public
representatives in what ridiculous situation the Foreign Office of
the neighboring country is… ".

As one can see, the humor is not the most important in this case. So,
the attempt by Mr. Stepanian or the lords of Stepanians to focus
precisely on this nuance of our section once again testifies that
our assumptions about the nature of the ministry’s policy are correct.

Alas! It makes no fun, but profound sorrow…

Regarding your statements about one of our authors, we should say you
ought not to be disrespectful to journalists’ work, and henceforth
to your own. Everything is relative.

Retaining its previous position, Day.Az states that the present
tragedy of the Armenian people, including a number of respected
representatives, is that they have a leader like Robert Kocharyan,
who being the president of the Republic of Armenia claimed that
Azerbaijanis and Armenians are genetically incompatible. Their current
leader is Serge Sargsyan, who still pursues a policy which has put
Armenia in a very complicated political and economic situation

We are journalists of the country which is drawn into the war. We
are proud as patriots of our country to have an opportunity to defend
our country’s interests by journalistic means that are available to us.

We hope the author or authors of the article will comprehend the
essence of our brief answer.