LET’S LAUGH ABOUT THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH FILM ON INTER: UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN

Trend
Dec 24 2009
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan should laugh at the film about the Nagorno-Karabakh on
the Inter television channel. The topic of the film is biased and
distorted, Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Boris Klimchuk said at
a press conference in Baku today.

The Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine delivered a diplomatic note to the
Ukrainian FM after the screening of an anti-Azerbaijani film on the
Inter television channel Dec. 7, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine
Talat Aliyev told Trend News.

After Euronews, Inter then prepared and presented the anti-Azerbaijani
film about Karabakh.

"I was not delighted with the screening of this film on the Inter
television channel. But the Inter channel is an independent channel
and this should be taken into account," Klimchuk said.

He said Ukraine’s position has not changed on the conflict, adding
that this was clearly stated at the last meeting with Aliyev at the
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

"There is a notion – ‘when in Rome, do as the Romans do’. The same
applies to independent press. The position of the Inter channel is not
the position of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has already
spoken with the Inter’s management," the ambassador said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. General Assembly’s resolutions
on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied
territories.