NKR FOREIGN MINISTRY: FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT IMPLY FREEDOM TO DISSEMINATE FALSE NEWS
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.12.2009 19:05 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In their attempts to depict Karabakh in the negative
light, the Azerbaijani mass media have once again lost their way in
broad daylight. Within a day, the woman killed on NKR-Azerbaijan
contact line turned from Armenian to Azeri, whereas the dead body
circulated in news materials belongs to a Georgian woman killed in
South Ossetia back in 2008, NKR Foreign Ministry says in a release.
It’s a long time Azerbaijani media have been using illicit practices
in their anti-Armenian propaganda. This is their third falsification
attempt over the past 3 months, says the release with reference to
"Noviy Region" (New Region) Russian periodical.
In a recent publication, the periodical also unmasked Trend news
agency, which had shot a documentary about the Karabakh conflict,
attaching the photo of a deceased Kosovo citizen (taken from a
Canadian francophone website) who was represented as "victim of
Armenian aggression."
Earlier, the same photo was used by other Azerbaijani sources,
including Heydar Aliyev Fund (), for featuring the
tragic events of Khodjalu. The forgery was disclosed by NKR Foreign
Ministry.
"Against the background of meetings between Armenian and Azeri
presidents and international mediators’ optimistic statements,
Azerbaijani media continue their aggressive information warfare against
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. To that end, they spare no effort to
render Armenians guilty of heinous crimes and instill Armenophobia
in their country and worldwide," the Ministry says in its statement.
The authors of the document are concerned that many years’ peacemaking
efforts in Karabakh may be narrowed down because of relevant
international organizations’ failure to make proper assessment on
official Baku’s destructive policy
"A democratic country moving towards Euro-integration, Azerbaijan,
together with its "independent" media, should realize that freedom of
speech does imply freedom to disseminate false news," says the release.