ARMENIAN COMMUNITY OF MALTA SAID TO BE ‘INDIGNANT OVER EURONEWS REPORTING ON NAGORNO KARABAKH’

Malta Independent Online
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Feb 9 2010
Malta

The Armenian community of Malta has expressed its outrage and
disappointment with "Forgotten Victims of Frozen Conflict" Euronews
reporting dated 1 February, panarmenian.net reported.

"We think it is incorrect to give such a free and one-sided
interpretation to UN resolutions on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as
well as to approve and broadcast calls for war that were heard in
the reporting," the community said in a statement.

"We truly hope that one of the most respectable and tolerant channels
of Europe as Euronews will henceforth be more delicate and tactful
in broadcasting such reportings, especially taking into consideration
that there are the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations as a background.

"We are very hopeful that the changes in the membership of the
shareholders of the Euronews channel do not have any influence on its
work and do not in any way impact the neutrality that a television
channel should possess," the press service of the Armenian Diaspora
of Malta said.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, NKR and
Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan
around it (the security zone) remain under the control of NKR defence
army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the
OSCE Minsk Group until now.