ARTAK NERSISYAN: BAKU CONTINUES OSTRICH POLICY
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14:19 / 12/09/2009
"Azerbaijan’s foreign policy is showing an interesting tendency. The
Azerbaijani authorities must have decided to resort to various ways
of lodging complaints about foreign TV companies, trying to impose
their only style of work on them," the Nagorno-Karabakh political
analyst Artak Nersisyan said.
"Baku does not seem to understand that mass media in civilized
countries need interesting news, not oil – interesting news from,
as Peter Barabas, Euronews Editor-in-Chief, said in his interview
with Day.az, hard-to-reach sources. The cause for the hard-to-get
trustworthy information on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
especially on the life of ordinary people is the flow of false
information reported by Azerbaijan, which is thereby trying to
deprive the international community of reliable information on
Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani authorities are afraid that foreign
mass media will expose their hypocritical policy and, at the same time,
satisfy the ordinary Azerbaijani citizens’ desire to be accurately
informed the situation in the NKR," Nersisyan said.
Seeing that their complains do not produce any results, official Baku
threatened the TV channels with invalidating their accreditation and
are now carrying out their threats.
"Particularly, Azerbaijan has implemented this policy toward
the NTV Channel, which is operating in Turkey, Azerbaijan’s ‘big
brother’. If this policy continues, Azerbaijan’s population will soon
have to watch only local TV channels, with their programs full of lie
about centuries-old history of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh being a
historical part of Azerbaijan, and so on. Ordinary citizens are sick
and tired of hearing all this. The Azerbaijani authorities, however, do
not at all seem to be concerned over that, as they have been pursuing
what is known as ostrich policy for a long time," Nesisyan said.